English edit

Etymology edit

prior +‎ -ship

Noun edit

priorship (countable and uncountable, plural priorships)

  1. The state or office of prior; a priorate.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 priorship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)