Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Apprenticeship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Apprenticehood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
apprenticehood .
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Examples
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So Alvin and Peggy were married, Horace Guester on one side, Arthur Stuart on the other, all standing there in the open on the grounds of the smithy where Alvin had served his prenticehood.
Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995
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He taught the school of hasty writers that talent, or even genius, is in need of discipline, -- the discipline of a long and painful prenticehood in the making and unmaking of their work.
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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