Bachelorship

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a bachelor. countable, uncountable

    "It implanted a dagger in the heart of one nobleman, who was a hearer by mere chance, and awoke a tender desire in the breast of another, after so long a period of old bachelorship, that mothers of every description had given him up some time ago."

Example

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"It implanted a dagger in the heart of one nobleman, who was a hearer by mere chance, and awoke a tender desire in the breast of another, after so long a period of old bachelorship, that mothers of every description had given him up some time ago."

Etymology

From bachelor + -ship.

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