shepherdship

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English

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Etymology

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From shepherd +‎ -ship.

Noun

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shepherdship (uncountable)

  1. The dignity or office of a shepherd.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:
      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.
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