Meanings
- rareuncountableThe condition of, or the time served as, a politician.
It is far from unthinkable that Hunter was capable of attempting such politicianship.
1946, Jane Marion Oppenheimer, New Aspects of John and William Hunter, →OCLC2 more examples
When somebody points up a piece of statesmanship (as opposed to politicianship) in either man's record, there is always the rejoinder: "He has been planning his Presidential climb for many years. This was part of the strategy."
1960, The Contemporary Review, volume 198, page 542That kind of politicianship belonged to a dying breed, he felt: a generation born, raised, and living their formative adult years in simplistic times with simplistic polarities; a binary world in which every issue had its positive Driving Fulbright Crazy.
2003, Nigel Hamilton, Bill Clinton: An American Journey: Great Expectations
Origin
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