giantships

Noun

giantship (countable and uncountable, plural giantships)

1. The state, personality, or character of a giant.
   • The real theme [of a story] may be, and perhaps usually is, something that has no sequence in it, something other than a process and much more like a state or quality. Giantship, otherness, the desolation of space, are examples that have crossed our path.1966, C. S. Lewis, On Stories

   Synonyms:

   giantness

2. A term of address for a giant.
   • His Giantſhip is gone ſomewhat creſt-fall'n,1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 74