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childship Now rare.|ˈtʃaɪldʃɪp|
[f. child n. + -ship; cf. sonship. (App. formed to render St. Paul's υἱοθεσία.)]
1. The relationship of child to parent; the attainment of this status, filiation, adoption.
1535Coverdale Rom. viii. 23 We..grone within in oure selues for the Childshippe. 1613T. Adams Pract. Wks. (1862) III. 101 God's actual choice, and our potential childship. 1662J. Sparrow tr. Behmen's Rem. Wks., Def. agst. Rickter 19 It attaineth not the divine Childship, or Filiation. 1765Law tr. Behmen's Myst. Magnum xl. (1772) 232 The inherited Adoption or Childship. 1886Westcott St. John's Ep. 17 Love is the sign of divine childship.
†2. second childship: = ‘second childhood’. Obs.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 646 Reduced to his second childship..his memory was quite decayed. |