rivalship
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editrivalship (countable and uncountable, plural rivalships)
- (now rare) Rivalry. [from 17th c.]
- 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations[1], page 759:
- Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
- 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 145:
- Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.
Etymology 2
editFrom rival + ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).
Noun
editrivalship (plural rivalships)
- (fandom slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.
- Synonym: hateship
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rivalship.
References
edit- “rivalship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.