Definition of authorship : 1. Source; origin; origination; as,
the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of
affairs. 2. The quality or state of being an author; function or
dignity of an author. piece of music, origination, paper, opus,
invention, composing, written material, paternity, typography,
doing, edit, production, censorship, piece, theme, piece of
writing, creative writing, physical composition, editorial,
bestselling, making, pen name, musical composition, makeup,
make-up, signature, instigation, fatherhood, pagination, report,
committal to writing, authorial, penning, initiation, creation,
cut, constitution writing (part of speech: noun) - Was I not the
one man in Pesaro who already knew his true nature, as revealed
by that matter of the verses which I had written, and of which
he had assumed the authorship? - "The Shame of Motley", Raphael
Sabatini. - The date and authorship of the play are unknown; it
probably belongs to the Fifth Century B. C., and is attributed
to Euripides. -