agentship

English

Etymology

From agent +‎ -ship.

Noun

agentship (countable and uncountable, plural agentships)

1. (countable) The office or position of an agent.
2. (uncountable, archaic) 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?

References

• “agentship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.