rulership

Noun

Meaning

the position of ruler

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dominion crown government order power rule authority command administration authorities reign regime sovereignty governmental governance

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Antonyms

lack democracy ban deny submit disadvantage

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Hypernyms

place position office post situation spot

Examples

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. George Orwell

Æthelstan continued the expansion of his father and aunt and was the first king to achieve direct rulership of what we would now consider England. Source: Internet

Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, iii, p. 6 Æthelfrith pursued her exiled brother Edwin in an attempt to destroy him and ensure that the Bernician rulership of Northumbria would be unchallenged. Source: Internet

Arbogast and Valentinian had frequently disputed rulership over the Western Roman Empire, and Valentinian was also noted to have complained of Arbogast's control over him to Theodosius. Source: Internet

Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings, p. 35, "Elder for kin, worth for rulership, wisdom for the church." Source: Internet

Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 8–9; Williams, 67. This arrangement is called the tetrarchy, from a Greek term meaning "rulership by four". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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