[f. EMPEROR sb. + -SHIP.] The office or dignity of emperor; the reign of an emperor.
1575. T. Rogers, Sec. Coming Christ (1577), 23 a. Which ambiciously sought the Emperourship of al Italy.
1805. Month. Mag., XX. 147. Between the battle of Actium and the acceptance of the emperorship.
1882. Athenæum, 25 Feb., 247. The last dozen years of his emperorship.
