What's the difference between deanery and deanship?
Deanery
Definition:
(n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
(n.) The residence of a dean.
(n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The CQC itself is putting into place a robust inspection process that will focus on the quality of care provided, and that will be evidenced in the good leadership so clearly lacking in the Old Deanery.
(2) The alleged mistreatment at the Old Deanery in Essex, a 93-bed home in Braintree, was filmed last year by an undercover reporter for the BBC.
(3) The public might reasonably ask if the scandals at Morecambe Bay , Colchester , Mid Staffs and now Panorama's Old Deanery are exceptions or the norm.
(4) The deanery synods of a diocese choose lay representatives to the General Synod – the church governing body – by formal election using the single transferable vote.
(5) The Very Rev Vivienne Faull, 59, dean of York Minster Faull was among the first group of 1,000 women ordained in the Church of England in 1994, and the first appointed to a cathedral deanery, when she became dean at Leicester in 2000.
(6) We are horrified at the revelations in the BBC Panorama programme of the abusive behaviour shown by staff at the Old Deanery towards the older residents in their charge.
Deanship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a dean.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study adds to the research literature on the nursing deanship and has important implications for the identification, selection, and training of exemplary leaders in nursing.
(2) The authors describe how one nursing faculty, through a search committee, clarified its vision of the future in the process of recruiting, selecting, and evaluating candidates for the deanship.
(3) Being interviewed for a Deanship is an exacting experience during which the candidate must make an impression, as well as, collect enough data upon which an informed decision can be made.