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wordship en · NOUN

Etymology

From word + -ship.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The state, condition, or status of a word.
    • "But it expressed his thought perfectly then to all English-speaking people, and does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is unknown to custom, but it has all the conditions of wordship, and is a much better English word than very many in "Webster's Dictionary." 1883, Richard Grant White, Words and Their Uses, Past and Present, page 200: