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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

shepherdship en · NOUN

Etymology

From shepherd + -ship.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The dignity or office of a shepherd.
    • Enki tries to calm Inanna, and he recites a litany of the spheres of influences she has been given: the staff of shepherdship, onslaughts and battles, the twisting of the thread. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165: