[ UK /hˈɛdʃɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛdˌʃɪp/ ]
NOUN
  1. the position of headmaster or headmistress
  2. the position of head
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How To Use headship In A Sentence

  • But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
  • That man is created first is seen as the first establishment of male headship, which is then further upheld and its application revealed. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • So when a man expects us to risk ourselves and be vulnerable or harmed out in the world working, or expects us to go without, either of these things feel like a huge giant "I don't love you and I am no longer the protector/cherisher of your well being, you are no longer under my active headship, that rightful wing protecting you is gone". Show Me
  • But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
  • He joined Brentwood after headships at Bournemouth School and Arnold School in Blackpool.
  • 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. The Political Importance of 'Family Values': An Interview with Riane Eisler (First Round)
  • Within weeks she was offered the headship of Sibford school in Oxfordshire.
  • Evangelical ideals of husbands' headship as providers, leaders and decision-makers, and wives' subordination as helpmates and mothers were ideally matched to post-War ideals for family life.
  • Many right-wing evangelicals in non-denominational churches often preach the "headship" of men and refuse to allow women pastors. Maureen Fiedler: Women As Religious Leaders: Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling
  • For all that, however, an emergency arose so pressing as to compel even the colonialism of Barbados to practically and completely refute this doctrine, by praying for, and submitting with gratitude to, the supreme headship of a [186] man of the race which our author so finically depreciates. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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