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ˈneighbourship
[f. as prec. + -ship.]
1. The state or fact of being a neighbour; nearness, propinquity. Also pl.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 101 Nychtbourschip till evill folk gerris oft tymes the gude tak scathe. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 5 b, Commen per cause vicynage .s. neyghbourshepe. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 9 This neighbourship was formost steppe to loue. 1798J. Baillie Count Basil v. i, Rest..each..in a hallow'd neighbourship with those, Who when alive his social converse shar'd. 1838Tait's Mag. V. 113 The uneasy accommodations, foul air, and unsatisfactory neighbourships of a public theatre. 1891Tablet 29 Aug. 327 The accidental neighbourship of grains of sand upon the shore.
2. Neighbourly relations or intercourse; esp. in phr. good (bad, ill) neighbourship.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 64 Since Denmark has no further hope of recovering its lost provinces, its true interest is a good neighbourship. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 177 Every bond of mutual sympathy or of wholesome neighbourship. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. v. v. I. 588 These violences and acts of ill-neighbourship. 1889Sat. Rev. 2 Mar. 237/2 To keep their tendencies to bad-neighbourship in check. |