historiographership

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English

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Etymology

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From historiographer +‎ -ship.

Noun

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historiographership (uncountable)

  1. The position or office of historiographer.
    • 1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters:
      Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.