Definition of "rivalship" [ri•val•ship]

• Rivalry (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Congress; is next seen canvassing his adopted State in rivalship with the accomplished orator Stephen A. Douglas for the Senate of the"
• "To which he answered, Thou sayest it; that is, "It is as thou sayest, that I am entitled to the government of the Jewish nation; but in rivalship with the scribes and Pharisees, who tyrannize over them in matters of religion, not in rivalship with Caesar, whose government relates only to their civil interests.""
• "Terentia, the divorced wife of Cicero; and there subsisted between the two husbands a kind of rivalship from that cause, to which was probably added some degree of animosity, on account of their difference in politics, during the late dictatorship of Julius Caesar, by whom Sallust was restored to the senate, whence he had been expelled for licentiousness, and was appointed governor of Numidia."