Generalship vs Handling - What's the difference?
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The position or office of a general.
The term of office of a military general.
:George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 277:
*:At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
*:Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship .
By extension, leadership, good management.
:Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
* Edmund Spenser
* 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
(arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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Generalship is a related term of handling.
As nouns the difference between generalship and handling
is that generalship is the position or office of a general while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.As a verb handling is
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(en noun)handling
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(wikipedia handling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
- at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings , &c.
- (Fairholt)