[See -SHIP.] The state or condition of a creature.

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1643.  R. O., Mans Mortalitie, v. (1644), 26. His glorification alters not his Creatureship.

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1685.  Cave, Serm., 10 (T.). The laws of our creature-ship and dependance.

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a. 1848.  R. W. Hamilton, Rew. & Punishm., viii. (1853), 364. Our creatureship is an immense capacity for happiness of a defined nature.

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1871.  Browning, Pr. Hohenst., 179. Varied modes of creatureship abound.

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