friarship
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friarship (countable and uncountable, plural friarships)
- The state, personality, or character of a friar.
- 1826, Frederick Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds:
- What was my astonishment, when I began to examine my new domicile, to find that my amusing acquaintance conjoined to his friarship the respectable trades of itinerant carpenter and chandler.
- A compellation for a friar.
- his friarship