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fathership|ˈfɑːðəʃɪp|
[f. father n. + -ship.]
a. The position, state or relation of a father; paternity, fatherhood. † Also in His Fathership: the personality of an ecclesiastical father.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. lxxx. 489 Let vs beware of such maner of fathership. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 60 His Fathership. 1755Johnson, Paternity, fathership; the relation of a father. 1809Southey Lett. (1856) II. 168 After the fathership, and sonship, and all the other ships have been exhausted. 1871Sat. Rev. 15 Apr. 457 There was not a throne which did not acknowledge in his [the Pope's] fathership the palladium of its liberty and strength. 1875M. Collins Blacksmith & Scholar, etc. (1876) III. 107 The man whose fathership she disowned. 1890T. W. Allies Peter's Rock 468 The civil bond sprung from a spiritual fathership.
b. = fatherhood 1 e.
1899Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/3 The ‘Fathership’ falls upon Lord Templemore. 1901Ibid. 22 Apr. 1/1 The successor of the late Mr. Villiers in the ‘fathership’ of the House of Commons. 1910Ibid. 16 Feb. 2/3 Mr. Balfour..lost his chance of the ‘Fathership’ by a like accident. |