• Burghership

    Origin

    From burgher + -ship.

    Full definition of burghership

    Noun

    burghership

    (uncountable)
    1. The state of being a burgher; citizenship.
      • 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War Chapter , "It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.
      • 1902 , , John Fiske , The Federal Unioin , In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.
      • 1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Chapter , No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.
      • 1921, Various, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Chapter , "All coloured people are excluded from this provision, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership...."
    2. The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.
    © Wiktionary