retainership
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of retainership
First recorded in 1560–70; retainer 1 + -ship
Example Sentences
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House service was the older feudal idea of personal retainership, developed in Virginia and Carolina in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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On the other hand it was the milder and far different Virginia house service and the personal retainership of town life in which most white children grew up; it was this that impressed their imaginations and which they have so vividly portrayed.
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They had settled upon the Prince of India in a kind of retainership.
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All the few in whom yet lingered any shadow of retainership towards the fast-fading chieftainship of Glenwarlock, seemed to cherish the notion that the heir of the house had to be tended and cared for like a child—that was what they were in the world for.
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In fact, they stood on the borderland of that feudal retainership which was being rapidly extinguished.
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