mastership

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English masterchippe, maisterschipe, equivalent to master +‎ -ship. Compare Dutch meesterschap, German Meisterschaft. === Noun === mastership (countable and uncountable, plural masterships) The state or office of a master. Mastery: dominion, superiority, control. Mastery: superior skill. (obsolete) Chief work; masterpiece. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A title of respect, sometimes ironic. c. 1531, John Frith, A Disputacion of Purgatorye, Antwerp: S. Cock, Book 2,[9] Thus hath Master More a full a[n]swere both to his scriptures which were to farre wrested out of their places and also to his awne apparent reasons. How be it if his mastershippe be not fullye pacyfyed let him more groundlye open his minde and bringe for his purposse all that he thinketh to make for it and I shall by goddes grace shortlye make him an answere and guyet his minde. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== headmastership postmastership === References === “mastership”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === shipmaster