adeptship

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English

Etymology

From adept +‎ -ship.

Noun

adeptship (countable and uncountable, plural adeptships)

  1. The role or status of an adept.
    • 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123:
      It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.