Presidency
['prezɪd(ə)nsɪ] or ['prɛzɪdənsi]
Definition
(noun.) the office and function of president; 'Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time'.
(noun.) the tenure of a president; 'things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration'.
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Definition
(n.) The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
(n.) The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.
(n.) The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.
(n.) One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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Examples
- Four years later the Republican party was successful in electing its candidate to the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Washington was inaugurated to the presidency at New York in 1789. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My son, sir, is at this minute chief magistrate of Ramgunge in the Presidency of Bengal, and touching his four thousand rupees per mensem. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This circumstance gave rise to exceedingly unfair and unjust criticisms of him when he became a candidate for the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The efforts to kill off politically the two successful generals, made them both candidates for the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You can't offer him the Presidency of the Council; that is reserved for Poodle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But the fact remains that the Roosevelt régime gave a new prestige to the Presidency by effecting through it the greatest release of political invention in a generation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He says so himself, virtually, in his answer to the notice of his nomination to the Confederate presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Whatever General Pierce's qualifications may have been for the Presidency, he was a gentleman and a man of courage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Jos's friends were all from the three presidencies, and his new house was in the comfortable Anglo-Indian district of which Moira Place is the centre. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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