executorship
(ɛkˈsɛkjʊtəʃɪp)
[f. executor + -ship.]
The office or duty of an executor.
| 1530 in W. H. Turner Select Rec. Oxford 90 Thomas Johns ought no peny to Falowfyld..but by way of executor⁓shyp. 1661 Pepys Diary 15 Sept., If she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my executorship. 1754 Richardson Grandison (1781) II. xxx. 288 He went to town this morning on the affairs of his executorship. 1823 Lamb Elia, South Sea House (1867) 7 He made the best executor in the world: he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly. |