[f. as prec. + -SHIP.] The practice or position of a courtier.
1556. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, II. (1561), L iv. The Count … entreated upon Courtyership so copiously.
1611. G. H., trans. Anti-Coton, To Rdr. 2. Knowing better what belongs to points of Courtiership, then Schollership.
1879. F. Hall, in Nation (N.Y.), XXXVIII. 219/1. Promotion was perhaps oftener due to adroit courtiership than bestowed as the reward of desert.
