connoisseurshipn.
1. The rôle or part of a connoisseur; critical acquaintance with works of art or matters of taste; the sphere or realm of connoisseurs.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun]
good tastea1400
sensea1616
epicurism1655
gusto1663
fancyc1665
sapience1667
taste1671
curiositya1684
niceness1698
gust1706
sensibility1735
connoissance1736
connoisseurship1749
tapinophoby1773
theoria1846
shibui1960
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > criticism > critic or reviewer > role of
connoisseurship1749
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. v. 34 Connoisseurship, Painting, Music, Statuary. View more context for this quotation
1780 Mrs. Thrale Let. 28 Apr. in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1791) II. 314 This morning it was all connoisseurship; we went to see some pictures.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 152 Commending In Connoisseurship's jargon quaint and cold.
1865 Reader 29 Apr. 478/2 At that time connoisseurship ignored the earlier schools of Italy.
2. attributive.1791 J. Wolcot Remonstr. in Wks. (1794) III. 103 Squinting with connoisseurship glances.
a. The quality of being a connoisseur; proficiency as a connoisseur.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun] > connoisseur > quality of being
curiositya1684
connoisseurship1753
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > criticism > critic or reviewer > proficiency of
connoisseurship1753
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxiii. 232 To see my Lord..shewing his connoisseurship to his motionless admiring wife.
1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxxii. 257 We began to pride ourselves on our connoisseurship.
b. humorously as a personal title.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun] > connoisseur > title of
connoisseurship1761
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > criticism > critic or reviewer
critic1587
criticizera1680
connoisseur1719
connoisseurship1761
crita1845
art critic1847
art connoisseur1856
neo-critic1865
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. vii. 88 Which [picture] your connoisseurship knows is so exquisitely imagined.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV liii. 29 How well his connoisseurship understands The graceful bend.
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