English

Noun

burghership ‎(uncountable)

1. The state of being a burgher; citizenship.
   • 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:

     "It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.

   • 1902, John Fiske, “The Federal Unioin”, in Harpers:

     In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.

   • 1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series:

     No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.

   • 1921, Various, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921:

     "All coloured people are excluded from this provision, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership...."

2. The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.