impostorship

English

Etymology

Noun

impostorship (uncountable)

The condition or practices of an impostor.
- 1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 247:
  [E]nclining rather to make this phantſm an expounder, or indeed a depraver of Saint Paul, then Saint Paul an examiner, and diſcoverer of this Impoſtorſhip; nor carring how ſlightly they put off the verdit of the holy Text unſalv'd, that ſays plainly there be but two Orders

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for impostorship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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