nabobship

Etymology

From nabob + -ship.

nabobship means the rank or condition of a nabob. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The rank or condition of a nabob.“1687, Records of Fort St. George, Diary and Consultation Book, Madras: 1916, entry for November 1687, p. 180, […] Potty Cawn was discharged from his Nabobship, and return’d to his Governmᵗ att Changalaput […]”
A position of extremely great wealth.“1772, James Iredell, letter dated 20 July, 1772, cited in Don Higginbotham (ed.), The Papers of James Iredell, Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1976, p. 109, […] an encumbered West India Estate, with the tax of high living, is no Nabobship, and an unfortunate Crop is a very severe shock to such a one.”