Meanings
nounpaintership (usually uncountable, plural painterships)
plural painterships
- uncountableusuallyThe state or position of being a painter.
Admit also a curious cunning painter, to be chief painter, let him strive also to continue still in his chief paintership, lest another pass him in cunning, and so have the name of chief painter from him, because he is more worthy than he.
1535, Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia
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paintership. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paintership
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“paintership.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paintership. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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