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agentship en · NOUN

Etymology

From agent + -ship.

Meanings

1. (countable) The office or position of an agent.
2. (archaic, uncountable) A means of effecting something; agency.
   • King. Then you confeſſe you were her Bawd? / Clar[inda]. That's courſe, her agent ſir. / King. So, goodie agent? and you think there is / No puniſhment due for your agentſhip? c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, page 92, column 2:

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