Antedating of "Leadership"

[Fred Shapiro]

leadership (OED 1821)

1765 Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl. The principles of the late
changes impartially examined: in a letter from a Son of Candor to the
Public Advertiser. The second edition. 57 (Eighteenth Century Collections
Online)  The Ministers, 'tis very confidently said, have not yet been able
to settle the important point of the leadership among themselves.

Fred Shapiro


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