amateurship

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English

Etymology

From amateur +‎ -ship.

Noun

amateurship (usually uncountable, plural amateurships)

  1. The quality or character of an amateur.
    • 1837, The Athenaeum, page 863:
      This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables []

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