Impostorship

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition or practices of an impostor. uncountable

    "[E]nclining rather to make this phantſm an expounder, or indeed a depraver of Saint Paul, then Saint Paul an examiner, and diſcoverer of this Impoſtorſhip; nor carring how ſlightly they put off the verdit of the holy Text unſalv'd, that ſays plainly there be but two Orders"

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"[E]nclining rather to make this phantſm an expounder, or indeed a depraver of Saint Paul, then Saint Paul an examiner, and diſcoverer of this Impoſtorſhip; nor carring how ſlightly they put off the verdit of the holy Text unſalv'd, that ſays plainly there be but two Orders"

Etymology

From impostor + -ship.

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