Wordship

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state, condition, or status of a word. rare, uncountable

    ""But it expressed his thought perfectly then to all English-speaking people, and does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is unknown to custom, but it has all the conditions of wordship, and is a much better English word than very many in "Webster's Dictionary.""

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""But it expressed his thought perfectly then to all English-speaking people, and does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is unknown to custom, but it has all the conditions of wordship, and is a much better English word than very many in "Webster's Dictionary.""

Etymology

From word + -ship.

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