mediumship

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Etymology

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From medium +‎ -ship.

Noun

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mediumship (countable and uncountable, plural mediumships)

  1. (parapsychology) The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
    • 1905, Hamlin Garland, “Dr. Britt Explains”, in Tyranny of the Dark[1], Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2008, page 70:
      The mother is a spiritualist—has been for years—and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in Viola when a child.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "I may add that in my own domestic circle, under my wife's mediumship, we have been privileged to bring hope and knowledge to some of these unhappy beings."
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 276:
      But for myself I do not regard mediumship very favourably.

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