Meaning of studency | Babel Free

Definitions

The role or position of being a student.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Dr. Jefferies, a canon of Christ Church, accordingly offered his assistance in procuring for him a studency in that house ; but his father's predilection for his own⟳ college in Cambridge, induced him to reject⟳ this offer⟳, and on this circumstance Mr. Wakefield reflects with the profoundest gratitude to the Almighty, for having rescued him from an university whose system of study⟳ he reprobates in the severest and most decisive terms.”

“It was absolutely necessary to check this studency of his, or he would soon lose⟳ his finest qualities as a writer.”

“The philosophy and culture of India separates life into four almost airtight compartments: studency, mating-home building, leadership-citizenry and meditating-aging.”

“Cesca tended to give⟳ her friends Irish names: Marie, a fellow student during her first period at art school in Paris and now a close⟳ friend, for the duration of her studency was dubbed 'Maire'.”

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