rulership

English

Etymology

From ruler +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹuːlə(ɹ)ʃɪp/

Noun

rulership (countable and uncountable, plural rulerships)

  1. A position in which one rules or has sovereignty over others.
    • 1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 104:
      All rulership has its original and its most legitimate source in man’s wish to emancipate himself from life’s necessity, and men achieved such liberation by means of violence, by forcing others to bear the burden of life for them.

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