rivalship

From rival +‎ -ship.

rivalship (countable and uncountable, plural rivalships)

1. (now rare) Rivalry. [from 17th c.]
   • 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations‎, page 759:

     Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.

   • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 145:

     Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.

From rival +‎ ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).

rivalship (plural rivalships)

1. (fandom slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.

   Synonym: hateship

   • 2015 October 16, kat (@saItkath), Twitter‎:

     it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so

   • 2017 December 20, in the netherdeep (@NatRoze), Twitter‎:

     where are my femslash rivalships/hateships i want girls who wanna DUEL before they smooch

   • 2019 March 6, may (@myosotiskills), Twitter‎:

     I dont like kylo ren bc hes a bitch. Also r*ylo sucks because fuck rivalships she deserves better. Dont @ me

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rivalship.

• “rivalship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.