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undergraduateship

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The position or condition of an undergraduate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The position or condition of an undergraduate.

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  • noun The position or condition of an undergraduate.

Etymologies

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undergraduate +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • Strong; and time, I think, has brought out his valuable qualities, and rendered him a more accomplished rascal than he was during your undergraduateship.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • With reference to the imposition supposed to be set Porson (Vol. ii., p. 71.), and shown by C. at p. 106. to be by Joshua Barnes, I question whether any imposition were ever set him: for I have heard Mr. Summers (Porson's first instructor) observe, that he was a well-conducted man during the whole of his undergraduateship; others have reported the same of him.

    Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Various

  • It was for a speaker whose undergraduateship lay thirty years behind to state as plainly as he could his own deepest obligation to the place which had decided the course and complexion of his life.

    Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • It is scarcely fair to reckon Cardinal Manning among Oxford celebrities; but during my undergraduateship he made two incursions into the

    Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • In 1858, when "The Defence of Guenevere" came out, Mr. Morris must have been but a year or two from his undergraduateship.

    Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

  • As has been already remarked, it is scarcely probable that this can have been the poet, then a youth of some seventeen years on the verge of his undergraduateship.

    A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

  • Lancashire {2} before his undergraduateship, as well as after.

    A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

  • (Deronda's undergraduateship occurred fifteen years ago, when the perfection of our university methods was not yet indisputable.)

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

  • Dean Bradley tells us how he took Oxford by storm in the days of the undergraduateship of Clough and Matthew Arnold.

    Alfred Tennyson 1842

  • Oxbridge, was with Strong; and time, I think, has brought out his valuable qualities, and rendered him a more accomplished rascal than he was during your undergraduateship.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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