strangership

The natives were civil enough to marshal us pretty high up by right of strangership, but still I was barely near enough to drink wine with her.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

We are not likely, in the case of leaving it, to return to Devonshire, and I should look with weary eyes to another strangership and pilgrimage even among green fields that know not these fogs.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

We are not likely, in the case of leaving it, to return to Devonshire, and I should look with weary eyes to another strangership and pilgrimage even among green fields that know not these fogs.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

At first he tried to make a sort of general common-place conversation about the pretty houses that are building in the neighbourhood, and some compliments on my improved appearance, made exactly in the sort of half-gallant manner in which the most ordinary acquaintance could be addressed - one in the habit of being seen every day - for there was no strangership in the tone.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

Madame d'Aligré, perceiving his bashful and painful look of strangership, beckoned him to come beside her.

Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

Lady Carbery, to draw upon her from several leading families in the town such little services and attentions as pass naturally, under a spontaneous law of courtesy, between those who are at home and those who suffer under the disadvantages of _strangership_.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

Lady Carbery, to draw upon her from several leading families in the town such little services and attentions as pass naturally, under a spontaneous law of courtesy, between those who are at home and those who suffer under the disadvantages of _strangership_.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

One solitary half minute being paid down as a tribute to the sanctities of the case, his next care was to withdraw me, the stranger, from any oppressive feeling of strangership.

Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822