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What does headship mean?

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Noun
  1. The position of a head or chief
  2. (Britain) The position of a headmaster or headmistress
  3. (archaic) authority or dignity
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The separation of headship of state from the headship of government is a very important part of maintaining liberty.
Within weeks she was offered the headship of Sibford school in Oxfordshire.
It was her second headship after spending 10 years at another school in the city.
Under the headship of the neo-behaviorist Kenneth W. Spence, it led America in the production of psychology doctorates for many years.
I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband.
But the difference of course was that Henry VIII wasn't really interested in changing anything other than the headship of the church.

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