mediumship
The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
Noun
- The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
- The mother is a spiritualist—has been for years—and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in Viola when a child. - 1905, Hamlin Garland, “Dr. Britt Explains”, in Tyranny of the...
- "I may add that in my own domestic circle, under my wife's mediumship, we have been privileged to bring hope and knowledge to some of these unhappy beings." - 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify...
- But for myself I do not regard mediumship very favourably. - 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 276:
Origin
From medium + -ship.