English
knaveship
From knave + -ship.
A compound of knave + -ship
Proto-West Germanic *knappō ‘boy’
Old English cnafa ‘child, boy, youth’
Middle English knave ‘son, male child (offspring)’
English knave
Today it means
noun The condition of being a knave (used mockingly)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / knaveship