Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ensignship .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rank or office of an ensign.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The rank or office of an
ensign .
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Examples
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I was promised a halbert, too, and afterwards, perhaps, an ensigncy, if I distinguished myself; but Fate did not intend that I should remain long an English soldier: as shall appear presently.
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Old Tiptoff would have sworn black was white if the great Earl had bidden him; and he made his son give up his commission in the Guards, in imitation of my Lord Pitt, who resigned his ensigncy rather than fight against what he called his American brethren.
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Ireland, being given to Colonel Nassau, whose favour the young volunteer acquired to such a degree, that he was recommended to the king for his ensigncy, which in all probability he would have obtained, had not the regiment been unluckily reduced.
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A small sum given him as the pay of an inland ensigncy, now conferred on him, but antedated, sufficed to defray the expenses of the voyage.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Gallant service in the field had won him advancement; and in 1817 he was selected for an ensigncy in the 25th
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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Claude, the elder of these children, who had a peculiar scar on his brow (which had been left by a burn), at an early age expressed a strong desire to become a soldier, and his father accordingly procured an ensigncy for him in the regiment of Clanleu.
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous
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He fell gloriously at Toulouse, and the next day came the gazette with his promotion to an ensigncy, which, if it was then of little value to him, was at any rate "a great consolation to his poor afflicted widow, and the means of reconciling her father to the choice she had made; and her return once more to her home was a scene of great rejoicing."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various
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Disappointed in obtaining an ensigncy in a Militia Regiment, through the interest of Sir Walter Scott, and frustrated in every other attempt to retain the social position he had gained, he returned to Ettrick, once more to seek employment in his original occupation.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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At the close of that period he was offered by his employer an ensigncy in the service of the
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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There he remained till 1777, when, the Earl's friendly disposition remaining in full force, and the youth's predilection for a military career continuing unabated, an ensigncy was procured him, through Lord
hernesheir commented on the word ensigncy
Because the burst of nasals hard up against the esses are fun to say.
January 5, 2013
yarb commented on the word ensigncy
"...she had already sent the draft to a friend in London, with directions to deposit it in the hands of a certain banker, for the purchase of the first ensigncy to be sold..."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
January 21, 2022