softship
Noun
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Noun
softship (plural softships)
- (rare, often, humorous) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.
- 1877, William Mattieu Williams, Through Norway with ladies - Page 2:
- In 1856 I courted hardship, went out of my way in search of it, selected the North because hardship was most attainable there ; now my object is exactly reversed, it is not hardship, but (I should like to say "softship," but dare not) the utmost […]
- 1920, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 212 - Page 774:
- Until you have mended a tire on a muddy road at dusk and turned a crank for five reels of the most deadly movies, you have an entirely misleading notion as to the softships of relief work. I can think of no work of theirs more satisfying to the worker herself […]
- 1943, Raymond Tift Fuller, Now that We Have to Walk: Exploring the Out-of-doors - Page 29:
- Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.
- 2012, Bruce Wagner, I'll Let You Go: A Novel - Page 239:
- […] hardships he so gracefully endured amid numbered leave-takings from the softship of his father's customized cabin were notable and should be recorded for future invalids. real and imaginary. Exactly who was part of this airborne sodality?
- 1877, William Mattieu Williams, Through Norway with ladies - Page 2:
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