Definition of "bachelorship" []

• The state of being a bachelor. (noun)

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• "In spite of every advantage of university training, and in the face of her bachelorship of arts, his power of intellect overshadowed hers, and his year or so of self-study and equipment gave him a mastery of the affairs of the world and art and life that she could never hope to possess."
• "He had accomplished a distance vastly greater than a bachelorship of arts, or a dozen bachelorships."
• "Old bachelorship so decided as mine has its privileges in such a tete-a-tete, providing you are, or can seem for the time, perfectly good-humoured and attentive, and do not ape the manners of your younger years, in attempting which you will only make yourself ridiculous."