A preachership was the title originally given to the congregations of men and women with superior education giving sermons to the public as a result of their dissatisfaction with poor-quality sermons of medieval church.
These gatherings were considered more important than the
Preacherships made of the intelligentsia becoming Protestant leaders were found in: Stuttgart, Reutlingen, Eisenach, and Jena.
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Preachership — Preach er*ship, n. The office of a preacher. The preachership of the Rolls. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
preachership — chə(r)ˌship noun : the office of preacher appointed to a university preachership … Useful english dictionary
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