[f. AMBASSADOR + -SHIP.] The office, position or function of an ambassador.
1837. Blackw. Mag., XLI. 610. Something for ambassadorship to do. Ibid. (1838), XLIV. 370. The marshal’s ambassadorship-extraordinary.
1882. Pall Mall G., 27 May, 1/2. His [Count Beust’s] ten years of successful ambassadorship form an appropriate and tranquil conclusion to his varied career.
