[f. UNCLE sb. + -SHIP.] The state or condition of being an uncle; the relationship of an uncle.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 410. Must you, my Lord,… add to my Plagues, if I have any? Is this your Uncleship?
1826. Lamb, Elia, II. Wedding. I feel a sort of cousinhood, or uncleship, for the season.
1827. Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 51. And how, Mr. Bedford, do you feel yourself under the honours of uncleship?
1881. Athenæum, 24 Dec., 844/1. She was a niece of that unlucky General … whose uncleship bribed Southey into omitting a sentence in his ‘Peninsular War.’
