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elder
(redirected from eldership)

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elder noun adult, advanced in years, ancestor, ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, early, elderly, matured, older man, older woman, one of the older generation, original, senior, senior citizen, superannuated, veteran, vintage
Associated concepts: elder care, medicare, social security
See also: adult, predecessor, primogenitor


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Akinwumi's "Ero: A Celebration of Eldership in the Indigo Cloths of Owo" describes how textiles enrich the rituals and ceremonies by which men move Into the status of elderhood.
Your art has carried you to the unique and honored status of eldership among peers.
Baptists and Independents practiced congregational church government; Presbyterians placed government in the joint eldership of many congregations; Episcopalians granted the rule to bishops.
 
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