What does "gossiphood" mean?

Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.

What is a synonym for "gossiphood"?

Common synonyms include: gossipred.

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship. rare, uncountable
"XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood."
2
Gossip; idle talk. rare, uncountable
"[…] while my Lord Storford had already approved himself too staunch a knight, too honourable a gentleman, and too graceful a courtier, for much surprise to await the Lady Mildred's second choice, either in the prattling gossiphood of the shire of Gloucester, or the more solemn discussions of the antechambers of Westminster."

"XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood."

From gossip + -hood.

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