Obs. [f. as prec. + -SHIP.] The action of an awarder, arbitration.
c. 1547. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (1845), 422. Promising that … he would stand to your awardship, and now doth deny it. Ibid. (1555), in Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. xxix. 227. He would not that his awardship should take place.
