† aˈwardshipObs. [f. as prec. + -ship.] The action of an awarder, arbitration. c1547Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 422 Promising that..he would stand to your awardship, and now doth deny it.1555― in Strype Eccl.Mem. III. xxix. 227 He would not that his awardship should take place.