studency

English

Etymology

From student +‎ -cy.

Noun

studency (countable and uncountable, plural studencies)

1. The role or position of being a student.
   • 1798, The Monthly Mirror, page 264:

     Dr. Jefferies, a canon of Christ Church, accordingly offered his assistance in procuring for him a studency in that house ; but his father's predilection for his own college in Cambridge, induced him to reject this offer, and on this circumstance Mr. Wakefield reflects with the profoundest gratitude to the Almighty, for having rescued him from an university whose system of study he reprobates in the severest and most decisive terms.

   • 1893, Maxime Du Camp, Literary Recollections, page 302:

     It was absolutely necessary to check this studency of his, or he would soon lose his finest qualities as a writer.

   • 1972, Harrop Arthur Freeman, Henry Weihofen, Clinical law training: interviewing and counseling, page 78:

     The philosophy and culture of India separates life into four almost airtight compartments: studency, mating-home building, leadership-citizenry and meditating-aging.

   • 2005, Hilary Pyle, Cesca's Diary, 1913-1916: Where Art and Nationalism Meet, page 44:

     Cesca tended to give her friends Irish names: Marie, a fellow student during her first period at art school in Paris and now a close friend, for the duration of her studency was dubbed 'Maire'.