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Councillorship   Listen
noun
councillorship, councilorship  n.  
1.
The position of council member.
Synonyms: councilorship.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Councillorship" Quotes from Famous Books



... youthful fling or two, a "ransom" speech or so, will find excellent reasons for making their peace with things as they are, just as if they were utterly commonplace. They know that if they can boast a knighthood or a baronetcy or a Privy Councillorship, they will taste day by day and every day that respect, that confidence from all about them that no one but a trained recluse despises. And life will abound in opportunities. "Oh, well!" they will say. Such things give them influence, ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells

... His reward is a possible Peerage, a Colonial Governorship, a First Commissionership of Works, a Postmaster-Generalship, or, as Sir William Dyke found at the close of a tremendous spell of work, a Privy Councillorship. ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various



Words linked to "Councillorship" :   post, place, office, position, councilorship, berth, situation, councillor



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