[f. SUITOR sb. + -SHIP.] The state or condition of being a suitor.
1800. R. Cumberland, John De Lancaster (1809), I. 6. This distinguished personage was now in the fifth year of his suitorship.
1878. Morley, Diderot, I. 125. They revolted … against the old system of suitorship and protection.
1886. T. Hardy, Mayor Casterbr., II. iii. 33. The sense of occult rivalry in suitorship was … superadded.
