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(parapsychology) 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.
"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."
But for myself I do not regard mediumship very favourably.
Use mediumship when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mediumship means (parapsychology) The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings..
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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.
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