单词 | authorship |
释义 | authorshipn. 1. The career or occupation of an author. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] bookcraftOE fayingc1200 pena1387 composition1577 penwork1596 book writing1600 pencraft1600 composure1601 authoragea1628 literature1663 authorism1702 authorship1710 letters?1710 authoring1742 authorcraft1746 penwomanship1776 penmanship1793 authorhood1832 creative writing1837 pen-and-inkeryc1909 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 175 Patentees, with a sole Commission of Authorship. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 15 I saw none of the outward signs of authorship. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 113 The profession of literature, or, to speak more plainly, the trade of authorship. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) v. 160 The term of his authorship belongs..to the time of Queen Elizabeth. 1934 M. Moore Let. 18 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 317 I have known for a long time that I ought not to plan to live on money derived from authorship. 1961 E. Wagenknecht Nathaniel Hawthorne v. 151 Authorship, like all the arts, does undoubtedly encourage..a kind of spiritual nudism. 2011 F. Schweizer in S. Ledger & H. Furneaux Charles Dickens in Context ii. xv. 119 The high profile of authorship led to an unprecedented rise in the number of people who aspired to literary fame and fortune. 2. a. The fact of being the author of a piece of writing; the fact of being written by a particular person; literary origin. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > literary origin of text authorship1748 paternity1829 Quelle1893 1748 D. Mallet Congratulatory Let. to Selim 7 What a Weakness of Judgment would it be either to be moved at such bald, pointless, insipid Scurrilities, or to think any Gentleman capable of degrading himself into the Authorship of them. 1777 London Chron. 9 Aug. 148/1 In the Prologue, Mrs. Gardner not only confessed the authorship, but..declared she relied on their [sc. the public's] candour and humanity for a favourable reception. 1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 142 Whatever doubt there may be as to the authorship..of the Iliad. a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) v. 318 To deny his authorship of them. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xvii. 221 He's going to preach on the wickedness of short skirts, or the authorship of the Pentateuch. 1969 Computers & Humanities 3 144 Content analysis has been used by non-historians to help resolve the disputed authorship of certain of the Federalist Papers. 2011 Independent 4 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 11/5 Emoticons, exclamation marks, hahas, yays and omgs have been established as indicative of female authorship. b. gen. The fact of being the originator or instigator of an action, event, or state of affairs. Cf. author n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator > condition of creatorship1611 authorship1768 1768 Let. Ld. B— 11 A man hardy enough to take upon himself the sole authorship of the lie. 1884 Leeds Mercury 24 Oct. 4/4 He did not..expressly charge [him]..with the authorship of the riots at Aston Park. 1949 Rev. Politics 11 457 A prolonged investigation into the authorship of the war would be, it was considered, time-consuming. 2012 L. Guerra Visions of Power in Cuba x. 335 Loyalist Cubans claimed authorship of the Revolution's past and present, reassigning Fidel to a secondary role. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > personality of authorship1782 1782 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 92 My Authorship is undoubtedly pleased when I hear that they are approved. 1817 J. Austen Let. 14 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (2004) 207 Our objection to it You have heard, & I give your Authorship credit for bearing Criticism so well. 1853 M. F. Tupper Heart xvi. 155 Such..was not my authorship's intention. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 18 Apr. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1895) III. xiii. 227 To stick anything in not necessary to development between the foregoing chapters, is a form of ‘matter in the wrong place’ particularly repulsive to my authorship's sensibility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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