corrivalship

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Etymology[edit]

corrival +‎ -ship

Noun[edit]

corrivalship (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) joint rivalry
    • 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. [], 4th edition, London: [] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 149:
      As alſo, how by the corrivalſhip of Sha-gad his falſe friend, Ruſtan was deſtroy’d by falling into a pit covered with boughs and Earth;

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corrivalship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)