friarship
nounEtymology From friar + -ship. Piecewise doublet of brothership and palship.
1
The state, personality, or character of a friar.
- What was my astonishment, when I began to examine my new domicile, to find that my amusing acquaintance conjoined to his friarship the respectable trades of itinerant carpenter and chandler.1826, Frederick Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds:
2
A compellation for a friar.
- his friarship