giantship

English

Etymology

From giant +‎ -ship.

Noun

giantship (countable and uncountable, plural giantships)

1. The state, personality, or character of a giant.

   Synonym: giantness

   • 1966, C. S. Lewis, On Stories:

     The real theme [of a story] may be, and perhaps usually is, something that has no sequence in it, something other than a process and much more like a state or quality. Giantship, otherness, the desolation of space, are examples that have crossed our path.

2. A term of address for a giant.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 74:

     His Giantſhip is gone ſomewhat creſt-fall'n,

References

• “giantship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.