agentship
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]agentship (countable and uncountable, plural agentships)
- (countable) The office or position of an agent.
- (uncountable, archaic) A means of effecting something; agency.
- c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, page 92, column 2:
- King. Then you confeſſe you were her Bawd? / Clar[inda]. That's courſe, her agent ſir. / King. So, goodie agent? and you think there is / No puniſhment due for your agentſhip?
References
[edit]- “agentship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.