adeptship

noun

adeptship

noun

Etymology From adept + -ship.

1

The role or status of an adept.

It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123:

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