dittoship en · NOUN
Etymology
From ditto + -ship.
Meanings
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(obsolete, rare, uncountable) Repetition; sameness.
When a woman has set herself up for a practical dittoship with men, refusing to accept the name of her husband, or have any but a partnership relation with him, she ceases so far to be woman at all.
1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's Suffrage, The Reform Against Nature, page 161:Also, no copy (aka ditto) is completely accurate, so I would argue for a maximum of 99% dittoship.
2003 June 19, Chris Guynn, “OT, pot or kettle”, in rec.scuba (Usenet):coarse dittoship of the ballot - signifying exactly the same thing under all the compoundings of merit, motive, aim, purpose, affinity, caprice, in the voters, counting each his numeral one they go in as wants, repentances, sorrows, groanings on account of wrong, needs of help, burdens of compassion, causes undertaken, aspirations felt, and being worded into petitions they have all their relative values and weights in the scale of reasons.
1990, Chicago Theological Seminary, The Chicago Theological Seminary Register, volume 80, page 6: