Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of looking or beholding; the state or occupation of being a spectator or looker-on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The office or quality of a spectator.
- noun obsolete The act of beholding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being a
spectator
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, sport psychologists find that spectatorship yields much the same kind of social, and spiritual, benefits as people obtain from church membership.
Nigel Barber: Why Atheism Will Replace Religion Nigel Barber 2010
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Moreover, sport psychologists find that spectatorship yields much the same kind of social, and spiritual, benefits as people obtain from church membership.
Nigel Barber: Why Atheism Will Replace Religion Nigel Barber 2010
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In addition, sports spectatorship is a transformative experience through which fans escape their humdrum lives, just as religious experiences may help the faithful to transcend their everyday existence.
Nigel Barber: Sport As Religion Nigel Barber 2011
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Moreover, sport psychologists find that spectatorship yields much the same kind of social, and spiritual, benefits as people obtain from church membership.
Nigel Barber: Why Atheism Will Replace Religion Nigel Barber 2010
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I have to disagree that multiplayer gaming is intrinsically at odds with narrative and spectatorship (though I do agree that most games don't bother to try to these work together).
The Authorship Conflict SVGL 2009
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It is also curious that as religious attendance rates have dropped off in recent decades, interest in sport spectatorship has soared.
Nigel Barber: Sport As Religion Nigel Barber 2011
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It is also curious that as religious attendance rates have dropped off in recent decades, interest in sport spectatorship has soared.
Nigel Barber: Sport As Religion Nigel Barber 2011
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How, after Dumont's license to free spectatorship,could I enjoy a film which tells me from its opening credits that the story is going to be about evil the quote from The Book of Job that Malick chooses to ponderously announce his film and in which every shot is controlled to make the spectator realize the Truth of Life?
Karin Badt: French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: "No God but Cinema" Karin Badt 2011
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In addition, sports spectatorship is a transformative experience through which fans escape their humdrum lives, just as religious experiences may help the faithful to transcend their everyday existence.
Nigel Barber: Sport As Religion Nigel Barber 2011
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Moreover, sport psychologists find that spectatorship yields much the same kind of social, and spiritual, benefits as people obtain from church membership.
Nigel Barber: Why Atheism Will Replace Religion Nigel Barber 2010
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