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clanship|ˈklænʃɪp| [f. clan n. + -ship.] 1. The system of clans; division into clans; union of persons in, or as in, a clan.
1772Pennant Tours Scotl. (R.), The habitations of the highlanders, not singly, but in groupes, as if they loved society or clanship. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 217 Exercised by chiefs in the Highlands, when clanship was in its vigour. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. x. 281 The practice of reckoning clanship from the mother. 2. The feeling or spirit of attachment and loyalty to one's clan or fraternity (see clan n.).
1809–10Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 162 The jealous and indiscriminate partiality of clanship. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. xii. (1874) 225 There is less of clanship, less of the rallying round men of force or genius. |