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Tweet suff. 1. a. Quality, state, or condition: scholarship. b. Something that shows or possesses a quality, state, or condition: courtship. 2. Rank, status, or office: professorship. 3. Art, skill, or craft: penmanship. 4. A collective body: readership. [Middle English, from Old English -scipe.] |
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