Meanings
plural stadtholderates · alternative stadholderate
- historicalThe office or position of a stadtholder.
On his deathbed he sent for his younger half-brother, Frederic Henry, the prince who would undoubtedly succeed him in the stadholderate of five provinces and the command of the army.
2005 [1938], C. V. Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War, NYRB, page 194Synonyms: stadtholdership
- historicalA state ruled by a stadtholder.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe office or position of a stadtholder.
Origin
From stadtholder + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a state ruled by people of such office).
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