daughtershipn.
/ˈdɔːtəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈdɔdərˌʃɪp/, /ˈdɑdərˌʃɪp/ The state, condition, or fact of being a daughter (in various senses); daughterhood.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > condition of daughter
daughterhead?a1425
daughtership1675
daughterhood1847
1675 G. Fox Primitive Ordination 25 All that follow the Apostles in their Ordination..must follow them in their Sonship and Daughtership.
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 65 I shall not condole with you on the daughtership.
1867 Baedeker's Italy Handbk. Travellers, Pt. 2: Central Italy & Rome p. xlvi The Romance languages..maintain their relation of daughtership to the language of the Romans.
1920 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1918 528 Out of the union of a common motherhood and a common fatherhood arise the daughtership of all women and the sonship of all men.
2005 S. Torvik Nikolai's Fortune xxi. 295 Berit was my mother and I longed to make peace with her. It was Berit, not Inga, to whom I owed the duties of daughtership.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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