† gossipshipn.
Obsolete.
The mutual relation of gossips. Also, the personality of a gossip or sponsor (used as a mock-title). (Cf. gossipred n. 1.)
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > relation of godparents or child
gossipredc1315
affinity1357
gossipry?1548
gossipship1572
cognationa1575
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Gosshishippe at a Christening, lustrica cognatio.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Compadrazgo Gossipship, Compaternitas.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. X2 A whole penny-worth of paper, which his Gossipship that had the naming of the child, dubs the Encomium of the Foxe.
1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 188* To the end that this Goshipship shold no way be a bar or impediment among the Gentlewomen in matter of Mariage.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. x. 175 Such as were born after such Gossipship was contracted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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