[f. CANDIDATE sb. + -SHIP.] The position of a candidate.

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1775.  in Perry.

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1829.  Blackw. Mag., XXV. 200. The candidateship for that uneasy and cheerless seat.

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1861.  J. G. Sheppard, Fall Rome, vii. 385. Genseric … supported … the candidateship of Olybrius.

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