nomadship

English

Etymology

From nomad +‎ -ship.

Noun

nomadship (plural not attested)

1. (rare) The condition, state, or status of a nomad
   • 1993, Joseph Cary, Three Modern Italian Poets: Saba, Ungaretti, Montale:

     The book begins then with an evocation of terrible alienation, a paese irrecoverably lost, a nomadship only terminated by self-destruction: a lost soul surviving precariously in the memory of an embattled friend.

   • 2008, Michael Angell, The Death of a Convict and the Birth of a Young Woman:

     The sense that nothing was really worth any of I prior to this sip to not shake this aching aside any longer and to embrace the omens who charge into their own creations of my inner rage, turning them into Me and away from the shadow-casting employment of argument, war and the subtle expression of negative-nomadship amongst this external world called Thee.

   • 2013, Richard Russo, Elsewhere:

     Not long after she returned to Gloversville from Tucson, I began a decade-long academic nomadship during which I jumped from job to job, trying to teach and be a writer at the same time.

   • 2014, Kathleen Drowne, Understanding Richard Russo:

     He described this period of his life as a “decadelong academic nomadship” during which he was simultaneously teaching and writing, seeking jobs that offered him more time to write even if they offered lower salaries.