[f. EXECUTOR + -SHIP.] The office or duty of an executor.
1530. in W. H. Turner, Select Rec. Oxford, 90. Thomas Johns ought no peny to Falowfyld … but by way of executorshyp.
1661. Pepys, Diary, 15 Sept. If she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my executorship.
1754. Richardson, Grandison (1781), II. xxx. 288. He went to town this morning on the affairs of his executorship.
1823. Lamb, Elia, South Sea House (1867), 7. He made the best executor in the world: he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly.
