Obs. rare. [-SHIP.] Occupancy or tenure of a throne; sovereignty; reign.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 10. That manner of prouostship or gouernment remained in full force and vertue all their fowre throneships, alias a hundred yeare.
1853. J. W. Lester, Criticisms, 292. The exalt him to throneship with the Everlasting.
1869. Daily Nashville Patriot, 17 Sept., 3/4. Persigny made another speech producing the impression that Napoleon would only maintain the Pope’s throneship at the Vatican.
1900. H. H. Munro, Rise Russian Empire, ii. 25. The widow of the murdered Prince and his young heir Sviatoslav came peaceably into the vacant throneship.
