amateurship

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noun

The quality or character of an amateur.

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Meanings

nounamateurship (usually uncountable, plural amateurships)

plural amateurships

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or character of an amateur.

    This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]

    1837, The Athenaeum, page 863

Origin

From amateur + -ship.

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APA

amateurship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amateurship

MLA

“amateurship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amateurship. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “amateurship,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amateurship.

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