Abbotship meaning in General Dictionary
The state or office of an abbot
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- The state or office of an abbot.
Abbotship meaning in General Dictionary
(letter.) The state or company of an abbot.
Sentence Examples with the word Abbotship
This lama was Sodnam rGyamtso, the third successor of Gedundub, the founder of the Tashilhunpo monastery in 1447, who had been elected to the more important abbotship of Galdan near Lhasa, and was thus the first of the great, afterwards Dalai, lamas.