agentship

English

Etymology

From agent +‎ -ship.

Noun

agentship (countable and uncountable, plural agentships)

1. (countable) The office or position of an agent.
2. (uncountable) A means of effecting something; agency.
   • c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, page 92, column 2:

     King. Then you confeſſe you were her Bawd? / Clar[inda]. That's courſe, her agent ſir. / King. So, goodie agent? and you think there is / No puniſhment due for your agentſhip?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “agentship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)