acquaintanceship

• “And even while he is speaking to us, though the length of our acquaintanceship is short, we detect an unwonted relaxation in his manner, a confidence that has found understanding and seeks to lay itself bare.”

  The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915

• “Thus they soon dropped the idea of acquaintanceship, and began to think of him as friend, and there you have in a word the secret of his wide influence.”

  Letters to His Friends

• “Also, I wanted to develop some kind of acquaintanceship, not friendship, get to know something about them, personally, and work my way into being able to invite them to having dinner, or a drink, or something that would not seem so suggestive as to hiring them for their services.”

  Mexican Escorts: Beyond Sex & Pleasure Part 1

• “We struck up a kind of acquaintanceship, though I felt conscious that he did not in the least care about doing so, that he probably would not give me another thought.”

  Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge

• “One of the few males on the coven questioned, "If this Bible Peddler and the deceased Individualist were seen in the same vicinity, is there the possibility that there was some kind of acquaintanceship between them?”

  Conservative Outpost

• “Presumably by disclosing in this manner an easy acquaintanceship with persons famous, exotic, or deeply unexpected, this stratagem may achieve an immediate effect of heightened drama — and enable you to conduct the rest of your conversation entirely unimpeded.”

  Oui, comme mon mari disait à Louis XIV

• “If I remember correctly, you had forged a sort of acquaintanceship with him and often had a new piece of information to tell me.”

  The Guardian: Hisham Matar | Embedded or The Silent Countenance of Suleiman al Dewani

• “He made enough of an acquaintanceship with me at the time to arrange a later meeting, and he had information about TWA 800," Mr. Hill said.”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “It isn't so much a matter of money – for many of the tenant farmers to-day are as well off as the statesmen of the last generation, who often had their properties mortgaged up to the hilt – as of length of acquaintanceship, for in these days some farmers will be in three or four dales in ten years.”

  The Guardian: From the archive, 26 December 1903: A farmer's Christmas in the Dales

• “I do suggest that most of us non-Natives, living with virtually no trace of Native life, past or present, nor acquaintanceship with a Native person, have lost connection not only with values that grew here before we did, but with the very soil.”

  The Huffington Post: Alison Owings: The Buffalo In The Room: A Reflection For Native American Heritage Month

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