Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a sexton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a sexton.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The position or office of a
sexton .
Etymologies
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sexton + -ship
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Examples
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Chatterton's father had not succeeded to the sextonship, but he was a sub-chanter in Bristol Cathedral, and his house and school in Pile Street were only a few yards from Redcliffe Church.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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