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sonship|ˈsʌnʃɪp|
Also 6–7 sonneship.
[f. son n.1 + -ship. Cf. Du. zoonschap, G. sohnschaft.]
The position, state, or relation of a son; sonhood.
1587Golding De Mornay v. (1592) 52 His begetting or Sonneship (if I may so tearme it) is more inward than all the breedings or begettings which we commonly see. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 7 All our right of sonneship is by Christ. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 321 To disclaim our sonship in God. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 97 The poor Cloyster of which they boast themselves to be Sons, which Son-ship, is oftentimes purchas'd notwithstanding. 1706Stanhope Paraphr. III. 294 That Sonship was imparted by Adoption. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Div. 162 All the Christian Writers speak unanimously of a higher, antecedent Sonship. 1850F. W. Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. v. (1853) 73 As in baptism he seals the universal Sonship on the individual by name. 1871H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 328 The anguish of the father and the exquisite sonship of the youth. |