Meanings
plural discipleships
- uncountableThe condition of being a disciple.
Near-synonyms: followership; apprenticeship, tutelage
1 more example
The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Discipleship is a degenerating process to all parties concerned. People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined from a Life of Love, Laugher and Work, William H. Wise and Company, page 197Synonyms: followership, apprenticeship, tutelage
- countableThe period during which a person is a disciple.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition of being a disciple.
Origin
- Englishdisciple
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishdiscipleship
Translations
Finnish oppiluus
- oppiluuscondition of being a disciple
French discipulat
- discipulatcondition of being a disciple
German Jüngersein, Jüngerschaft
- Jüngerseincondition of being a disciple
- Jüngerschaftcondition of being a disciple
Italian discepolato
- discepolatocondition of being a disciple
Persian ارادت
- ارادت (erâdat)condition of being a disciple
Polish uczniostwo, uczniostwo
- uczniostwocondition of being a disciple
- uczniostwoperiod during which a person is a disciple
Scottish Gaelic deisciobalachd
- deisciobalachdcondition of being a disciple
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