[f. as prec. + -SHIP.] The office or action of a benefactor.
1652. Brome, Jov. Crew, II. Wks. 1873, III. 377. His great Benefactorship among the Beggars.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 41. His Benefactorship to his Countrey in the doing it at his own charge.
