laureateship
(ˈlɔːriːətʃɪp)
[f. laureate n. + -ship.]
a. The office of (poet) laureate.
| 1785 Rolliad i. (title) Probationary Odes for the Laureatship. 1813 Scott Let. to Jas. Ballantyne 24 Aug. in Lockhart, I have a letter by order of the Prince Regent offering me the laureateship in the most flattering terms. 1858 Masson Milton I. 387 The year 1632 was (nominally) the thirteenth year of the laureateship of Ben Jonson. |
b. The personality of a laureate (used jocosely, with possessive pron., as a title).
| 1732 Gentl. Mag. 563/2 Here, replied his Laureatship, are my Works, presenting a large Volume in Quarto. 1829 Southey Epistle in Anniversary 21 To personate my injured Laureateship. |