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n. Provostship; the office of provost or chief magistrate.

n. A district or town under the jurisdiction of a provost, or an ecclesiastical or monastic foundation of which a provost is the head.

"The effort was powerful, strenuous, desperate, and the cords and straps were strained to their utmost tension; but the seasoned bonds of the provostry held."