[f. SUPERIOR a. and sb. + -SHIP.]
1. The state of being superior, superiority. nonce-use.
1709. Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1720), III. 267. How do you think we agree about the point of Superiorship?
2. The position or office of superior.
1873. Mrs. H. Wood, Mast. Greylands, III. v. 97. You will be sorry, now, that you have resigned the superiorship to me.
1909. J. Stark, Priest Gordon of Aberd., Introd. p. xxiii. Freed from the Jurisdiction of the English Prelates and Jesuit Superiorship.
