eldership
Example Sentences
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"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2023
It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through 144 water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
I took the eldership at your hands, I know, saying nothing of the dark blot that soiled the past.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
In spite of Hung's line of ancestry and his father's eldership, they were far from being well supplied with the good things of this life; in fact, their freehold was barely sufficient to support them.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley
"I wudna wonder if ye didna come yont to tell me aboot the eldership," he said slowly.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill
