[f. prec. + -SHIP. A modern formation due to the application of the simple acquaintance to a person; cf. friend-ship.] The standing or relation of an acquaintance or of mutual acquaintances; the state or position of having acquaintance or personal knowledge; = ACQUAINTANCE 2.
1803. Southey, in Robberds’ Mem. W. Taylor, I. 440. A man with whom I have scarcely had any intercourse, not even of common acquaintanceship.
1881. Masson, Carlyle, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 71. His acquaintanceships among his fellow-students do not appear to have been numerous.
