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LORDSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The authority of a lord
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("lordship" is a kind of...):
authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; potency; say-so (the power or right to give orders or make decisions)
Derivation:
lord (a person who has general authority over others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge
Example:
His Lordship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Lordship" is a kind of...):
title (an appellation signifying nobility)
Derivation:
Lord (a titled peer of the realm)
Context examples:
His lordship added, “That he would not, by any further particulars, prevent the pleasure I should certainly take in viewing the grand academy, whither he was resolved I should go.”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"If your lordship will graciously permit me to open my mouth, I shall be happy to express my sentiments," said he, with elaborate sarcasm.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
White Fang was glad to acknowledge his lordship, but it was a lordship based upon superior intelligence and brute strength.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“That is what every officer and man in the fleet would prefer, your lordship,” said my father.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It will be a pleasure if we can so far deviate from our rules as to give the required information to his lordship.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
After the common salutations were over, observing his lordship’s countenance full of concern, and inquiring into the reason, he desired I would hear him with patience, in a matter that highly concerned my honour and my life.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There was something in the fibre of White Fang's being that made his lordship a thing to be desired, else he would not have come back from the Wild when he did to tender his allegiance.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And then, to follow of your Lordship's wishes I shall hold myself at your disposal to render an account to you, when and where you will.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The chairmen were dismissed; I put the chair, with his lordship in it, into my coat-pocket: and, giving orders to a trusty servant, to say I was indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the door of my house, placed the chair on the table, according to my usual custom, and sat down by it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If you will let me have his lordship's address I will consult the House on the subject, and will, in any case, communicate with his lordship by to-night's post.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
