[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The fact or condition of being a fautor; partisanship.
1863. Alford, Grk. Test. (ed. 5), I. Prolegomena, 76. The comparative absence of blind fautorship of the received text.
1888. H. C. Lea, Hist. Inquisition, I. 167. This final effort of self-defence was naturally construed as fautorship of heresy.