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Soldiership

noun
1.
Skills that are required for the life of soldier.  Synonym: soldiering.






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"Soldiership" Quotes from Famous Books



... lovers more than tough persistency, though he was stung with the shame of his double rebuff, nevertheless, effacing the form he had worn before, went to the king for the third time, professing the completest skill in soldiership. He was led to take this pains not only by pleasure but by the wish to wipe out his disgrace. For of old those who were skilled in magic gained this power of instantly changing their aspect and exhibiting the most different shapes. Indeed, they were clever at imitating any age, ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... the guidance of a man whose whole character displayed the most prominent features of soldiership. From that moment, the republic bore the sole impress of war. France had placed at her head the most impetuous, subtle, ferocious, and all-grasping, of the monarchs of mankind. She instantly took the shape which, like the magicians ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... he ever drilled a company of raw recruits half as well as he manages a handful of bad cards, he must have been the very admirable Crichton of soldiership. ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle



Words linked to "Soldiership" :   skill, attainment, acquisition, accomplishment, acquirement, soldier, soldiering



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