giantship

giantship

English

Etymology

giant +‎ -ship

Noun

giantship (countable and uncountable, plural giantships)

1. The state, personality, or character of a giant.
   • 1966, C. S. Lewis, On Stories

     The real theme [of a story] may be, and perhaps usually is, something that has no sequence in it, something other than a process and much more like a state or quality. Giantship, otherness, the desolation of space, are examples that have crossed our path.

2. A compellation for a giant.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 74:

     His Giantſhip is gone ſomewhat creſt-fall'n,

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 giantship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)