laureateship

noun

laureateship

noun

Etymology From laureate + -ship.

1

Usually The state, or office, of a laureate.

Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters:

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