The state or role of being an example; the quality of serving as a model or pattern.
From example + -ship (Old English 'state or condition'). A constructed noun expressing the status or function of something serving as an exemplary model.
This is a word that should work perfectly in English—example + ship logically creates the role of being an example, just like authorship means being an author—yet it's almost never used because 'exemplary status' or simply 'example' conveys the idea more naturally.
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