wordship
nounEtymology From word + -ship.
1
Rare The state, condition, or status of a word.
- "But it expressed his thought perfectly then to all English-speaking people, and does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is unknown to custom, but it has all the conditions of wordship, and is a much better English word than very many in "Webster's Dictionary."1883, Richard Grant White, Words and Their Uses, Past and Present, page 200: