Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office of surrogate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The office of a surrogate.

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  • noun The position or office of a surrogate.

Etymologies

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surrogate +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • Such an auxiliary sense of taste is the sense of novelty; and this latter is helped out in its surrogateship by the curiosity with which men view ingenious and puzzling contrivances.

    The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

  • Such an auxiliary sense of taste is the sense of novelty; and this latter is helped out in its surrogateship by the curiosity with which men view ingenious and puzzling contrivances.

    Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

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