coadjutorship

English

Etymology

coadjutor +‎ -ship

Noun

coadjutorship (plural coadjutorships)

  1. The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.
    • c. 1737, Alexander Pope, letter to William Fortescue, Esq.
      I would otherwise have tried to fix a day to meet you at Sir R.W's (with his permission, and your coadjutorship)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coadjutorship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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