[f. prec. + -SHIP.]
1. The status of a younger son.
1831. Disraeli, Yng. Duke, II. v. 60 (L.). he could not relinquish the ambitious prospects with which he had, during the greater part of his life, consoled himself for his cadetship.
2. The position or status of a military or naval cadet; the commission given to a cadet.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 55. For the artillery and engineers, it is a condition of the presentation of a cadetship that the candidate should have gone through a regular course of instruction at Addiscombe.
1854. Blackw. Mag., LXXVI. 667. The age of entering on their cadetship.
1884. Harper’s Mag., May, 866/1. Candidates for cadetship in the Royal Navy.
