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Definition of Commanderships
1. commandership [n] - See also: commandership
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commanderships
Literary usage of Commanderships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lady's Travels Into Spain: Or, A Genuine Relation of the Religion, Laws by Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine) (1808)
"Don Esteve added, " That the order of the Calatrava had thirty- four commanderships,
and eight priories, valued at one hundred and twenty thousand ducats ..."
2. Memoirs of Prince Adam Czartoryski and His Correspondence with Alexander I by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Alexander, Adam Gielgud (1888)
"In Poland there were still some commanderships of the Order, notwithstanding the
bad repute into which it had fallen among us by Prince ..."
3. The Rhine by Victor Hugo (1848)
"From Mayence the Teutonic Order ramified as far as Coblentz, which became one of
its commanderships. The Templars, already masters of Courgenay and ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"... are such as to afford considerable encouragement to the service, several
commanderships in military orders being expressly reserved for sea-faring men. ..."
5. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's by Plutarch, John Dryden (1895)
"... commanderships and his long political course; as he thought this the only
means to make them a match for their foreign enemies. ..."
6. Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor by George Ticknor, Anna (Eliot) Ticknor (1876)
"... commanderships, etc., etc., and besides having been, more than once, at the
head of affairs at home, and having often gained great battles abroad. ..."
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