Acquaintanceship
[ә'kweintәnsʃip]
Definition
(n.) A state of being acquainted; acquaintance.
Editor: Megan
Examples
- Tom watched the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But his liking for the Vicar of St. Botolph's grew with growing acquaintanceship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In their long acquaintanceship and intimacy they could not recall a harsh word that had been uttered by Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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