Definition of "politicianship"

politicianship

noun
uncountable
1. (rare) The condition of, or the time served as, a politician.
  Quotations
  It is far from unthinkable that Hunter was capable of attempting such politicianship.
  1946, Jane Marion Oppenheimer, New Aspects of John and William Hunter
  When somebody points up a piece of statesmanship (as opposed to politicianship) in either man's record, there is always the rejoinder: "He has been planning his Presidential climb for many years. This was part of the strategy."
  1960, The Contemporary Review, volume 198, page 542
  That kind of politicianship belonged to a dying breed, he felt: a generation born, raised, and living their formative adult years in simplistic times with simplistic polarities; a binary world in which every issue had its positive Driving Fulbright Crazy.
  2003, Nigel Hamilton, Bill Clinton: An American Journey: Great Expectations‎