Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being a burgher; citizenship.
No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.
1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series3 more examples
"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.
1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the WarIn 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.
1902, John Fiske, “The Federal Unioin”, in Harpers"All coloured people are excluded from this provision, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership...."
1921, Various, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 - uncountableThe rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.
Origin
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