Amateurship
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality or character of an amateur. uncountable, usually
"This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]"
Example
More examples"This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]"
Etymology
From amateur + -ship.
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