lordship
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
lordship
- The state or condition of being a lord.
- 2004, Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 27
- For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service […]
- 2011, Daniel Frankforter, Word of God - Words of Men: The Use and Abuse of Scripture, page 93
- Lordship entails both privilege and responsibility. Lords have power over their subjects, but that power is granted them so that they can protect and provide for others.
- 2004, Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 27
- (hence, with "his" or "your", often capitalised) Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.
- May I ask that the order be granted, if your lordship so pleases?
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- 'He's had his bath,' she said. 'He's just had his bath, bless his little lordship's heart.'
- (humorous, with "his" or "your") A boy or man who is behaving in a seigneurial manner or acting like a lord, behaving in a bossy manner or lording it up
- Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
- ca. 1690, John Dryden (translator), Juvenal (author), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal:
- What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.
- 1832, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, volume I, page 425
- […] for whose ransom he compelled Lord Percy to build the castle of Punnoon, in the lordship of Eaglesham.
- ca. 1690, John Dryden (translator), Juvenal (author), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal:
- Dominion; power; authority.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Mark 10:42 ↗:
- But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
- French: Monsieur, le Seigneur
- German: der Herr
- Italian: il Signore
- Portuguese: o Senhor
- Russian: све́тлость
- Spanish: el Señor, señoría
- French: seigneurie
- German: Herrschaft
- Italian: signoria
- Portuguese: domínio
- Spanish: esfera, señorío
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