bachelorship
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bachelorship (countable and uncountable, plural bachelorships)
- The state of being a bachelor.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 251:
- It implanted a dagger in the heart of one nobleman, who was a hearer by mere chance, and awoke a tender desire in the breast of another, after so long a period of old bachelorship, that mothers of every description had given him up some time ago.
Translations
[edit]bachelorhood — see bachelorhood