释义 |
suitorship|ˈs(j)uːtəʃɪp| [f. suitor n. + -ship.] The state or condition of being a suitor.
c1800R. Cumberland John De Lancaster (1809) I. 6 This distinguished personage was now in the fifth year of his suitorship. 1878Morley Diderot I. 125 They revolted..against the old system of suitorship and protection. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. II. iii. 33 The sense of occult rivalry in suitorship was..superadded. |