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English
Etymology
From bachelor + -ship.
Noun
bachelorship (countable and uncountable, plural bachelorships)
- The state of being a bachelor.
1838 (date written), L E L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , published 1842, →OCLC, page 251:It implanted a dagger in the heart of one nobleman, who was a hearer by mere chance, and awoke a tender desire in the breast of another, after so long a period of old bachelorship, that mothers of every description had given him up some time ago.
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