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English
Etymology
From agent + -ship.
Noun
agentship (countable and uncountable, plural agentships)
- (countable) The office or position of an agent.
- (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?