politicianship

English

Etymology

politician +‎ -ship

Noun

politicianship (uncountable)

1. (rare) The condition of, or the time served as, a politician.
   • 1946, Jane Marion Oppenheimer, New Aspects of John and William Hunter, →OCLC:

     It is far from unthinkable that Hunter was capable of attempting such politicianship.

   • 1960, The Contemporary Review, volume 198, page 542:

     When somebody points up a piece of statesmanship (as opposed to politicianship) in either man's record, there is always the rejoinder: "He has been planning his Presidential climb for many years. This was part of the strategy."

   • 2003, Nigel Hamilton, Bill Clinton: An American Journey: Great Expectations‎^[1]:

     That kind of politicianship belonged to a dying breed, he felt: a generation born, raised, and living their formative adult years in simplistic times with simplistic polarities; a binary world in which every issue had its positive Driving Fulbright Crazy.