amateurship

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From amateur +‎ -ship.

Noun

[edit]

amateurship (usually uncountable, plural amateurships)

  1. The quality or character of an amateur.
    • 1837, The Athenaeum, page 863:
      This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables []

References

[edit]