laureateship

English

Etymology

From laureate +‎ -ship.

Noun

laureateship (usually uncountable, plural laureateships)

1. The state, or office, of a laureate.
   • 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.