precursorship

English

Etymology

Noun

precursorship (countable and uncountable, plural precursorships)

The position or condition of a precursor.
- 1843–1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
  the treatment of the masses of mountain in the Daphne and Leucippus , Golden Bough , and Modern Italy , is wholly without precursorship

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “precursorship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)