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lordship

[ UK /lˈɔːdʃɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔɹdʃɪp/ ]
NOUN
  1. the authority of a lord

How To Use lordship In A Sentence

  • Yet at the end of this period, as at the beginning, the influence of lordship in society was pervasive.
  • God answers our prayers because by addressing them to Him we acknowledge His Lordship and power.
  • Their Lordships did not agree. Times, Sunday Times
  • If I had not come your Lordship would have said: this is a very important matter, I need an amicus.
  • Next morning, his lordship and friends, accompanied by the high and low bailiffs, walked to view the manufactory of Mr. Clay, japanner in ordinary to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the sword manufactory of The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
  • When in 1254 he created an apanage for his eldest son, Edward, two of its principal components were the lordship of Ireland and the earldom of Chester, within which was comprised several Welsh lordships.
  • And "My lorde useth and accustomyth yerly to gyf hym which is ordynede to be Master of the Revells yerly in my lordis hous in Cristmas for the overseyinge and orderinge of his lordschips Playes, Interludes, and Dresinge that is plaid befor his lordship in his hous in the XII dayes of Christenmas, and they to have in rewarde for that caus yerly, xxs. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
  • I 'm sartin it's fair play ye want; an' I canna for the life o 'me see a hair o' wrang i 'yer lordship's gaein' in a cogue, as auld Malcolm
  • I thoucht yer lordship wad like to see an auld stair I cam upo 'the ither day,' at gang's frae the wizard's chaumer. Malcolm
  • At the same time Wales was divided into counties or shires, some of which were based on and named after the ancient lordships.
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