penship

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English

Etymology

From pen +‎ -ship.[1]

Noun

penship (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of penmanship.
    • 1622, William Folkingham, Brachygraphie, Post-Writt. Or, The Art of Short-writing. , 2nd edition, London: Thomas Snodham, title page:
      Brachygraphie, Poſt-Writt. OR, THE ART OF Short-writing. Where moſt Letters conſiſt of ſingle ſtroakes or motions of the Pen, in beſt formes of Penſhip.
    • 1806, P[eter] Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Elegy”, in Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter. Elegies to the King, Lords Grenville, Petty, Erskine, the Bishop of London, Messrs. Fox, Sheridan, &c. &c., London: G. Hayden, J. Walker, , page 56:
      Is Mistress Tripe the Butcher’s lady dead? / Out flames a paragraph of pretty penship; / “Resign’d and pious tears in plenty shed, / “By all that had the honour of her friendship. // “She left three children to lament her fate, / “And worthy Mister Tripe to join their grief:” […]
    • 1993 May 20, Stephen Roe, quotee, “MUSIC / Technique: Settling a few old scores: Stephen Roe and Simon Maguire are manuscript detectives. Sabine Durrant meets them and picks up some clues”, in The Independent‎, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-06:
      No performance of [Gustav] Mahler's First Symphony has ever been the same since he handled a copy of that either. 'Mahler had gone to town scrawling alterations all over it. There was this strong penship, lots and lots of footnotes, so confident. I haven't held that manuscript for 10 years now, but I can still see it.'

References

  1. ^ “penship, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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