[f. ENVOY sb. + -SHIP.] The office, position or function of an envoy.

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1703.  R. Ferguson, in Proc. Ho. Lords conc. Scottish Conspiracy (1704), 16. Five hundred Lewis d’Ors … as the Sum and Result of his Envoyship and Expedition.

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1736.  H. Coventry, Philemon to Hydaspes, iii. (1739), 24 (T.). Cain … paid all due Reverence to this Lunar Envoyship.

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1817–8.  Cobbett, Resid. U. S. (1822), 217. The Boroughmongers may easily add a legation of mendicity to their Envoyships and Consulships.

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1843.  Blackw. Mag., LIV. 812/2. You remember Marston … at Brunswick, five-and-twenty years ago, in his envoyship.

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