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Definition of Deanships
1. deanship [n] - See also: deanship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deanships
Literary usage of Deanships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Thorstein Veblen (1918)
"The larger and more substantial exception would, of course, be taken to the
generalization as touching the use of the deanships in preparation for the ..."
2. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"... under the right of the crown, when they shall be vacant, with the exception
of the deanships in the king's chapels of this sort, * * * Other offices, ..."
3. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... before Deans and Chapters were instituted indeed, but having an eye without
doubt upon their deanships in futurity. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"In 1916 there were in the diocese 72285 Catholics, 500 Greek Schismatics, 5
deanships, 47 parishes, 11 filial parishes, 112 secular and 52 regular priests. ..."
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