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Definition of Lordship

1. Noun. A title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge. "His Lordship"

Definition of Lordship

1. n. The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.

Definition of Lordship

1. Noun. The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc. ¹

2. Noun. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. ¹

3. Noun. Dominion; power; authority. ¹

4. Noun. Formal form of address to a judge. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lordship

1. the power of a lord [n -S]

Medical Definition of Lordship

1. 1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc. 2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. "What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber." (Dryden) 3. Dominion; power; authority. "They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them." (Mark x. 42) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lordship

Literary usage of Lordship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1849)
"And the reason your lordship gives, in every of these places, why your lordship has such an apprehension of ideas, as that they may be of dangerous ..."

2. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"Item, that the said people, in opposition as aforesaid, shall have patents from hi» lordship for such lands in the said province as they can claime due unto ..."

3. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"To which our author t replies, It is plain, that that which your lordship apprehends, in my book, may be of dangerous consequence to the article which your ..."

4. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"/Then, of himself, he sayde that peradventure your lordship might suspect that your freeness with him might prejudice yow; for, he sayde, yow had been as ..."

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