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amateurship|ˈæmətjʊəʃɪp| [f. as prec. + -ship.] The quality or character of an amateur; a. of being fond of, having a liking for, something; b. of dabbling in matters for which one has no professional training, dilettantism.
1827De Quincey On Murder in Blackw. Mag. XXI. 209/2 Wearied with the frigid pleasures..of mere amateurship, he had quitted England. 1834― Caesars Wks. 1862 IX. 106 The cool and cowardly spirit of amateurship in which the Roman..sat looking down upon the bravest of men..mangling each other for his recreation. 1834M. Edgeworth Helen II. 2 Horace [thinking] most of himself and his amateurship 1875Hamerton Intell. Life iii. v. 100 Napoleon III indulged in..a dangerous kind of amateurship. He had a taste for amateur generalship. |