authorship

• authourship (obsolete)

From author +‎ -ship.

authorship (countable and uncountable, plural authorships)

1. The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.

   Synonym: authorhood

2. The source; the origin; the origination.

   We are unaware of the authorship of this book.

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