[f. prec. + -SHIP.]
1. The office, duty or calling of a solicitor.
c. 1596. Sir R. Cecil, in Campbell, Lives Chancellors (1856), II. xlvii. 315. To arm him with your observations (for the exercise of solicitorship).
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem. (1856), 155. Blair … held to his comfortable solicitorship and to his own way steadily.
1837. New Monthly Mag., LI. 284. His sense of the crookedness or cruelty of the trade was added to his sickening of solicitorship.
2. The personality of a solicitor.
1633. Massinger, New Way, II. iii. And yet your good solicitorship, and rogue Wellborn, Were brought into her presence!
