[f. EDITOR + -SHIP.] a. The duties, functions and office of an editor. b. The tenure of that office. c. Editorial superintendence.
1782. Tyers, Hist. Rhapsody on Pope, 15 (T.). The editorship of Shakspeare (which Pope afterward undertook with more profit than reputation).
1812. Examiner, 27 Dec., 831/1. Captain Benjafield, who was formerly Editor of the Morning Post, has been charged … with obtaining, during that editorship, an annuity from the Prince of Wales.
1813–40. W. Gifford, Massinger’s Wks. (1840), 447/1. If such portentous lines as these may be introduced without reason, and without authority, there is an end of all editorship.
1882. Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xix. 144. The Daily Telegraph, under the editorship of Mr. Edwin Arnold.
