precentorship

From precentor +‎ -ship.

precentorship (countable and uncountable, plural precentorships)

1. The role or office of a precentor.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 105:

     It was the general opinion that though scholars and prominent men were present, only men familiar with the prayers and qualified for precentorship should be invited to officiate.

• “precentorship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.