ensiship

Etymology

From ensi + -ship.

ensiship means The office or tenure of an ensi. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

noun

The office or tenure of an ensi.“Edmond Sollberger considers some evidence in Sumer of the 3rd Millennium BC notably the reality of the sovereignty of the god Enlil who elects and deposes rulers; a case of a royal judgement overruled; the strange relationship of Urukagina to his predecessor in the ensiship and later colleague, and his wife.”