amateurship
English
Noun
amateurship (usually uncountable, plural amateurships)
- The quality or character of an amateur.
- 1837, The Athenaeum, page 863:
- This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]
References
- “amateurship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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