chieftainship

Noun

Meaning

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Negomo chieftainship wrangle rages on HARARE - Lawyers representing claimant to the Negomo chieftainship David Gweshe have written to Local Government minister July Moyo asking him to expedite his appointment as the substantive chief. Source: Internet

There are some leaders in the chieftainship of our nation, the Great Council of Chiefs, and who have politicised the great consular chiefs, who are misleading us. Source: Internet

It is relationship that counts, not possession of a particular chieftainship. Source: Internet

Stools already functioned as traditional symbols of chieftainship, but the Golden Stool represented the united spirit of all the allied states and established a dual allegiance that superimposed the confederacy over the individual component states. Source: Internet

Through his mother, he was born into the prominent Wind Clan of the Creek; as the Creek had a matrilineal system of descent and inheritance, he achieved his chieftainship because of her. Source: Internet

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