courtiership

_précieuses_, indicate a distinct reaction against merely brutal and ferocious manners, with a standard of "courtiership" in both senses.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Under no despotism has there been such an organised system of tillage for raising a rich crop of vicious courtiership. 11

Representative Government 2002

But the prince remained too long in opposition for the fidelity of courtiership, and Rigby glided over to the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

Pretender was proclaimed in Edinburgh, when the Highland army was on its march to London, and when all the hopes of hollow courtiership and inveterate Jacobitism were turned to the triumph of the ancient dynasty.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Elizabeth, evincing at once his own courtiership and her popularity.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

There is also the accent of his irresponsible courtiership, the facile and unashamed flattery he paid to such a woman as Princess

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

-- The fate of Spenser is a commentary upon courtiership, even in the reign of Elizabeth, the Faery Queene.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Assuredly, the absolute reductio ad absurdum of this courtiership, was reached when the Queen was extolled for behaving as any reasonable woman would: --

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

The names with which they adorned their maps were a piece of courtiership and a means of currying favour with the great and powerful, just as their espionage, and their supply of illicitly-obtained and flavoured information to Decaen in Mauritius, were essays to advance their own interests by unworthy services.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

The names with which they adorned their maps were a piece of courtiership and a means of currying favour with the great and powerful, just as their espionage, and their supply of illicitly-obtained and flavoured information to Decaen in

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903