rivalship

English

Etymology 1

From rival +‎ -ship.

Noun

rivalship (countable and uncountable, plural rivalships)

1. (now rare) Rivalry. [from 17th c.]
   • 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations‎^[1], page 759:

     Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.

   • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 145:

     Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.

Etymology 2

From rival +‎ ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).

Noun

rivalship (plural rivalships)

1. (fandom slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.

   Synonym: hateship

   • 2015 October 16, kat (@saItkath), Twitter‎^[2]:

     it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so

   • 2017 December 20, in the netherdeep (@NatRoze), Twitter‎^[3]:

     where are my femslash rivalships/hateships i want girls who wanna DUEL before they smooch

   • 2019 March 6, may (@myosotiskills), Twitter‎^[4]:

     I dont like kylo ren bc hes a bitch. Also r*ylo sucks because fuck rivalships she deserves better. Dont @ me

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rivalship.

References

• “rivalship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.