beadleship

Etymology

From beadle + -ship.

beadleship means the office or jurisdiction of a beadle. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.“He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.”