eldership means the position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
noun
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.“Primogenitura, or eldership of birth, was greatly respected by God.”
- The personality of an elderly person.“So irresistible to their elderships to be flattered.”
- The office or position of elder in a church.“The office of eldership is equallie distributed betweene the bishop and the minister.”
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.“That gyft, which was geuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the handes, by the Eldership.”
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.“The local governmental system in Lithuania has passed through several changes since the restoration of independence, and its future is still being debated. There are three levels of local government: apskritys (plural apskritis, usually translated as “counties”); municipalities; and elderates, sometimes given as elderships.”