amateurship

English

Etymology

amateur +‎ -ship

Noun

amateurship (usually uncountable, plural amateurships)

1. The quality or character of an amateur.
   • 1837, The Athenaeum, page 863:

     This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]

References

• “amateurship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.