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acquaintanceship

noun

Etymology

From acquaintance + -ship.

  1. derived from acointier
  2. derived from acointance
  3. derived from aquaintaunce
  4. inherited from aqueyntaunce
  5. suffixed as acquaintanceship — “acquaintance + ship”

Definitions

  1. The state of being acquainted.

    • What, eschew acquaintanceship? forget, After my most hearty commendations, my very trusty friend, ’Twere sin and shame Tomaso.
    • To host and hostess thus with fortune blest, Lief had I come with better news to bear Unto your greeting and acquaintanceship;
    • Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them […]

  2. A relationship as acquaintances.

    • They began their acquaintanceship very lovingly, and after a shake or two by the hand, Bell gave him a more particular account of the uses and sanctity of his office […]
    • In their long acquaintanceship and intimacy they could not recall an harsh word that had been uttered by Amelia.
    • I have already spoken to them through my window to begin an acquaintanceship.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at acquaintanceship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01acquaintanceship02acquainted03familiar04commonplace05commonly06familiarly07experience08acquaintance

A definitional loop anchored at acquaintanceship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at acquaintanceship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA