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connoiˈsseurship
[f. connoisseur n. + -ship.]
1. The rôle or part of a connoisseur; critical acquaintance with works of art or matters of taste; the sphere or realm of connoisseurs.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. v, Connoisseurship, painting, music, statuary. 1780Mrs. Thrale Let. to Johnson 28 Apr. in Boswell, This morning it was all connoisseurship; we went to see some pictures. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 152 Commending In Connoisseurship's jargon quaint and cold. 1865Reader 29 Apr. 478/2 At that time connoisseurship ignored the earlier schools of Italy.
2. The quality of being a connoisseur; proficiency as a connoisseur.
1754Richardson Grandison (1781) IV. xxxiii. 234 To see my Lord..showing his connoisseurship to his motionless admiring Wife. 1878Black Green Past. xxxii. 257 We began to pride ourselves on our connoisseurship.
attrib.1791Wolcott (P. Pindar) Remonstr. Wks. 1794 III. 103 Squinting with connoisseurship glances.
b. humorously as a personal title.
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IV. vii. 61 Which [picture] your connoisseurship knows is so exquisitely imagined. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. liii, How well his connoisseurship understands The graceful bend. |