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laureateship en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English laureate Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English laureateship From laureate + -ship.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state, or office, of a laureate.
   • 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:

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