"mediumship" meaning in English

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          "word": "mental mediumship"
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          "ref": "1905, Hamlin Garland, “Dr. Britt Explains”, in Tyranny of the Dark, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2008, page 70",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 276",
          "text": "But for myself I do not regard mediumship very favourably.",
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        "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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        "(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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          "sense": "ability to mediate communication between spirits",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "médiumnité"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "ability to mediate communication between spirits",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "mediunidade"
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  "word": "mediumship"
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      "sense": "ability to mediate communication between spirits",
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      "word": "médiumnité"
    },
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