[f. SPONSOR sb. + -SHIP.] The state of being a sponsor; the office of a sponsor.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, XI. i. The governor’s lady, wishing to draw the bonds of sponsorship still closer in this friendly party, stood for Scipio’s daughter.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., II. v. It knits them unto me, and me to them, That bond of sponsorship.
1895. Daily News, 16 Feb., 2/4. To undertake the sponsorship of a resolution which asks the House to put aside this measure.
