shepherdship

English

Etymology

shepherd +‎ -ship

Noun

shepherdship (uncountable)

1. The dignity or office of a shepherd.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:

     Enki tries to calm Inanna, and he recites a litany of the spheres of influences she has been given: the staff of shepherdship, onslaughts and battles, the twisting of the thread.