husbandship

English

Etymology

From husband +‎ -ship.

Noun

husbandship (countable and uncountable, plural husbandships)

1. The role or status of a husband
   • 2002, B. Boehrer, Shakespeare Among the Animals:

     Hence his eternal inadequacy, and the withering scorn that accompanies it in the works of Ovid and others: In a sense the cuckold is not simply a failed husband, but an emblem of failed husbandship in general, or, worse yet (and this, I think, is what happens at the hands of Renaissance authors), the cuckold intimates that husbandship can never really succeed on its own terms, as an institution created and upheld by masculine authority.

   • 2010, Steven Landsburg, Price Theory and Applications:

     Thus, the price of a husbandship is higher when husbandships are scarce, and, similarly, the price of a husbandship is low when husbandships are abundant.