burghership
(ˈbɜːgəʃɪp)
[f. burgher + -ship.]
The rights and privileges of a burgher.
| 1725 tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. I. v. 188 Who had lost their Burghership for some great Crimes. 1871 Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xviii. 209 The rights both of burghership and clanship were strictly enforced. |
b. fig. (cf. burgess-ship 1 b).
| 1568 Coverdale Bk. Death (‘transl. out of High Dutch’) xvi. (1579) 69 Our conuersation and burgership is in heauen. |