[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office of a commandant; commandancy.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. II. viii. Captain D’Agoust may now … look forward to … Commandantship of the Tuileries.
1881. Shadwell, Life Ld. Clyde, I. iv. 122. Colin Campbell, as the next senior officer in Hong Kong, assuming the commandantship of that island.
