servantship
(ˈsɜːvəntʃɪp)
[f. servant n. + -ship.]
The state or condition of being a servant.
| 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love b i b, Supposed euen so that his seruaunt (that is his seruauntship out of the law) should be his heire. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. lxiv. 391 That seruantship bare no sway in him by the space of those fortie dayes. 1776–80 Bentham Introd. Princ. Mor. & Legisl. xvi. (1789) 263 Usurpation of servantship [coincides] with usurpation of mastership. 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus xxi, I suppose the appellation mistress put her in mind of her ci-devant servantship. 1876 W. Bathgate Deep Things v. 87 Any man who treated his neighbour, either in servantship or mastership, as he should be treated. |