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idleship|ˈaɪd(ə)lʃɪp|
Forms: see idle a.
[f. idle a. + -ship.]
†1. Vanity (= idleness 1); in idleship, in vain.
a1250Prov. ælfred 286 in O.E. Misc. 120 Idilschipe and ouer-prute Þat lereþ yong wif vuele þewes. c1315Shoreham 93 Take nauȝt hys name in ydelschepe. 1357Lay Folks Catech. 183 The secund commandement biddes us noght take In ydelship, ne in vayne the name of our god.
†2. Inactivity, want of occupation, indolence.
1357Lay Folks Catech. 534 Ydelship..makes men lathe to begyn any gode dedis. 1390Gower Conf. II. 59 If I mighte spede With any maner besinesse, There shulde me none idelship Departen from her ladyship. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vi. xiv. 255 The wyse man sayth That ydelshyppe hath taught moche malyce.
3. As a mock title, after lordship, etc.
1860Luck Ladysmede (1862) I. 80 Here I find your young idleship..holding a fool's court of japers and talemongers as usual. 1865K. H. Digby Short Poems (1866) 24 But to write verses I have taken, In hopes your idleship to waken. |