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Webster 1913 Edition
Spectatorship
Spec-ta′tor-ship
,Noun.
1.
The office or quality of a spectator.
[R.]
Addison.
2.
The act of beholding.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spectatorship
SPECTA'TORSHIP
,Noun.
1.
The act of beholding.2.
The office or quality of a spectator.Definition 2024
spectatorship
spectatorship
English
Noun
spectatorship (countable and uncountable, plural spectatorships)
- The state or quality of being a spectator
- 1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society
- His sporting enthusiasms had already embraced yachting, coaching, fencing, and spectatorship at boxing-matches, cock-fights, dog-fights, and rat-baitings.
- 1988 March 11, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Paranoid Illusions”, in Chicago Reader:
- Once again, spectacle and spectator become confused, although here spectatorship becomes anything but passive […] .
- 1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society