historiographership en · NOUN
Etymology
From historiographer + -ship.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The position or office of historiographer.
Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.
1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters: