Headship

Word HEADSHIP
Character 8
Hyphenation head ship
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Headship"

What do we mean by headship?

The position or office of a head or leader; primacy or command. noun

The position of a headmaster or headmistress. noun

The state or position of being a head or chief; head or chief place; hence, authority; rule; government. noun

Authority or dignity; chief place. noun

The position of a head or chief noun

The position of a headmaster or headmistress noun

Authority or dignity noun

The position of headmaster or headmistress noun

The position of head noun

The position of a head or chief.

The position of a headmaster or headmistress.

Authority or dignity.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Headship

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The word "headship" in example sentences

That man is created first is seen as the first establishment of male headship, which is then further upheld and its application revealed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He did not question the right of His Father to function as His head, nor did He attempt to redefine the notion of headship and submission through a "careful exegesis." ❋ Afryea (2010)

Many right-wing evangelicals in non-denominational churches often preach the "headship" of men and refuse to allow women pastors. ❋ Maureen Fiedler (2010)

What is also interesting is that it has been pointed out by Welch that the Second Adam headship which is explained by Cyril is Eucharistic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Using slogans like "traditional values," U.S. fundamentalists stress the "headship" of the father in a punitive family where women and children are subordinate to the will of the father – the kind of family that prepares people to defer to "strong" leaders who brook no dissent and use force to impose their will. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But it is an inferior who vows obedience, it is the inferior who loses legal rights, it is the inferior who yields to another the "headship" of the home. ❋ Abraham Myerson (1914)

It was to dissipate this gloom that presently the man who sat at the head of the table, a bald and red-faced fellow who looked a German, and who seemed to exercise some kind of headship over the others, pushed back his chair a little from the board and glanced half anxiously and half angrily towards the inn door. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Between the hard decorum of conscientious "headship," which freezes Mrs. ditto's married life, and the grumbling tyranny which threatens and, knocks down "my woman," how many grades of gross assumption and wretched submission intervene! ❋ Unknown (1869)

The common morality with its family "headship" tends to dethrone the mother. ❋ Unknown (1869)

An attempt will be made to interpret the Biblical meaning of "headship" and ❋ Afryea (2010)

This is the kind of headship exemplified by Christ, the model of the husband's headship. ❋ Afryea (2010)

They are Catholics -- including nuns, supposedly the most obedient of the faithful -- active in the movement for women's ordination; evangelicals who reject the "headship" belief, traced to the New Testament, that husbands should rule over their wives; Orthodox Jews who find no obstacle in Jewish law to women's ordination or reading the Torah in synagogue; and Muslim women who refuse to pray behind the men in mosque and who denounce last year's attempt in Ontario to adopt sharia-based law to settle Muslim family disputes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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