Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being an uncle; the relation of an uncle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or position of an uncle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office or position of an
uncle .
Etymologies
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uncle + -ship
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Examples
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That degree of finish was surely rare among us -- rare at a time when the charm of so much of the cousinship and the uncleship, the kinship generally, had to be found in their so engagingly dispensing with any finish at all.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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Greg, that if my father were to tell me that he had changed his mind, and paid your brother's debts out of sheer kindness and uncleship, and the rest of it, I should be well pleased.
Ralph the Heir Anthony Trollope 1848
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