adeptship

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noun

The role or status of an adept.

OriginProto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English adept ← French adepte →
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Meanings

nounadeptship (countable and uncountable, plural adeptships)

plural adeptships

  1. countableuncountableThe role or status of an adept.

    It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.

    1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
  6. Proto-Italic*apjō
  7. Latinapiō
  8. Latinapīscor
  9. Latinadipīscor
  10. Latinadeptu
  11. Frenchadepte
  12. Englishadept
  13. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  14. Englishadeptship

From adept + -ship.

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APA

adeptship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adeptship

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Chicago

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