rivalship

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English

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Etymology 1

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From rival +‎ -ship.

Noun

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rivalship (countable and uncountable, plural rivalships)

  1. (now rare) Rivalry. [from 17th c.]
    • 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations[1], page 759:
      Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
    • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. [], volume III, London: [] Corri, []; and sold by Colburn, [], and Mackenzie, [], →OCLC, page 145:
      Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.

Etymology 2

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From rival +‎ ship (a fictional romantic relationship between two characters).

Noun

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rivalship (plural rivalships)

  1. (fandom slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.
    Synonym: hateship
    • 2015 October 16, kat (@saItkath), Twitter[2]:
      it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so
    • 2017 December 20, in the netherdeep (@NatRoze), Twitter[3]:
      where are my femslash rivalships/hateships i want girls who wanna DUEL before they smooch
    • 2019 March 6, may (@myosotiskills), Twitter[4]:
      I dont like kylo ren bc hes a bitch. Also r*ylo sucks because fuck rivalships she deserves better. Dont @ me
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rivalship.

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