retainership
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of retainership
First recorded in 1560–70; retainer 1 + -ship
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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.
From The Negro by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
They had settled upon the Prince of India in a kind of retainership.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
In fact, they stood on the borderland of that feudal retainership which was being rapidly extinguished.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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