beadleship

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noun

The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

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Meanings

nounbeadleship (usually uncountable, plural beadleships)

plural beadleships

  1. uncountableusuallyThe 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.

    1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “In Which the Reader, if He or She Resort to the Fifth Chapter of This Second Book Will Perceive a Contrast Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 297

Origin

From beadle + -ship.

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APA

beadleship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadleship

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“beadleship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadleship. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beadleship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadleship.

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