assassinship

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

assassin +‎ -ship

Noun[edit]

assassinship (uncountable)

  1. (very rare) The state or condition of being an assassin.
    • 2009, Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Value[1]:
      Consider, for example, the domain of assassinship. Because for an assassin killing one's target is the goal around which the practice of assassinship is structured (or so it seems), []