[f. LIEUTENANT + -SHIP.] The office of a lieutenant. Now rare.
1467–8. Rolls of Parlt., V. 588/1. The Office of Stuardeship or Lieftenauntship of oure Lordeship and Maner of Wodestoke.
1581. Savile, Tacitus’ Agric. (1591), 242. In that Lieutenantship hauing spent scarsely three years, he was called home to bee Consull.
1626. in Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), I. 149. The Earl of Warwick is put out of his lieutenantship, and, which is more, out of the commission for the peace.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 226. Antipater … having succeeded Antipas his Father in the Lieutenantship of Idumœa.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1822), II. xxxiv. 445. The King gave him [the Marquis of Northampton] … the lieutenantship of the chase of Hampton Court.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 18 Aug., 4. He had been proposed for a lieutenantship, when … he deserted.
