hostageship

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20
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20
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11

Definition of hostageship

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)A condition of being held as surety for a pledge, as to appear before a magistrate for trial after release from gaol.
    “English, Norman and French tradition seem all to point to an ancient and extremely rigorous form of suretyship or hostageship which would have rendered the surety liable to suffer the punishment that was hanging over the head of the released prisoner.”

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Etymology

From hostage + -ship.

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