How To Use Cardinalship In A Sentence

Cambrai might rely upon advancement to a cardinalship, and steps were taken, but without any good result, to bring about that event. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
I excused myself by saying that I had taken a resolution never to accept of the cardinalship by any means which seemed to have relation to the civil wars, to the end that I might convince the Queen that it was the most rigid necessity which had separated me from her service. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Cardinal to secure the advancement of the Abbe d'Auvergne, that he had already made a daring and fraudulent attempt to procure for him a cardinalship. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this difference, that they were finished and he was completed. Les Miserables
It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

He wished to arrive at the cardinalship, and to further his views he thought it advisable to ingratiate himself into the favour of Monsieur de Bourgogne. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Gentlemen, I think you will thank me for giving you an associate like M. d'Orleans, to whom I give my nomination to the cardinalship. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
His archbishopric and his nomination to the cardinalship required more discussion. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete