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authourship

authourship is the obsolete spelling of authorship.

Meaning of authorship

Noun

authorship (countable and uncountable, plural authorships)

  1. The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
    Synonyms:
    authorhood
  2. The source; the origin; the origination.
    • We are unaware of the authorship of this book.

Origin of authourship

From authour + -ship.

Questions about authourship

What is authourship the obsolete spelling of?
Authourship is the obsolete spelling of authorship.

Words near authourship in the dictionary

  1. authourize
  2. authourized
  3. authourizes
  4. authourizing
  5. authours
  6. authourship
  7. authress
  8. authresses
  9. authrix
  10. auths
  11. authserv

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: authourship (page history and authors); authorship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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