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burghership

noun

Etymology

From burgher + -ship.

  1. derived from *bʰerǵʰ-✻ — “fortified elevation”
  2. derived from *burgz✻
  3. derived from *burg✻
  4. derived from burgāri — “inhabitant of a fortress”
  5. derived from burger
  6. derived from burgher
  7. inherited from burger
  8. suffixed as burghership — “burgher + ship”

Definitions

  1. The state of being a burgher

    The state of being a burgher; citizenship.

    • "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.
    • In 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.
    • No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.

  2. The rights and privileges of a burgher

    The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA