LADYSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ladyship mean? 

• LADYSHIP (noun)
  The noun LADYSHIP has 1 sense:

1. a title used to address any peeress except a duchess

  Familiarity information: LADYSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADYSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A title used to address any peeress except a duchess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

Her Ladyship

Hypernyms ("Ladyship" is a kind of...):

title (an appellation signifying nobility)

 Context examples 

“No, no, that will never be. Your ladyship is quite mistaken. No theatre at Everingham! Oh no!”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Now and then they were honoured with a call from her ladyship, and nothing escaped her observation that was passing in the room during these visits.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her ladyship's carriage was a barouche, and did not hold more than four with any comfort.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Tant pis!" said her Ladyship, "I hope it may do her good!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have seen your ladyship at Naples.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought they had better hear your ladyship’s story first.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I see—her ladyship’s waiting-maid.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one made any objection but Marianne, who with her usual inattention to the forms of general civility, exclaimed, Your Ladyship will have the goodness to excuse ME—you know I detest cards.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His unexpected accession to title and fortune had removed all his difficulties; and never had the general loved his daughter so well in all her hours of companionship, utility, and patient endurance as when he first hailed her Your Ladyship!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)