So essential was the gender complement to these priesthoods that if the wife died, the husband had to give up his office.

"Why did you give up your office to me?"

Miss Lambert gave up her office just a year before her death but still kept busy with a few accounts.

If he had been imprisoned, state law would have forced him to give up his office.

Gave up his nice big office in exchange for what?

But he would not give up his office.

Unfortunately he became sick and gave up his office only two months later.

But he is not under any legal obligation to give up his office as a result of his party's action.

By choosing to give up his office, he had made himself an outcast.

I'll admit I'd hate to give up my office, because there are parts of the work I love.