LORDSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lordship mean? 

• LORDSHIP (noun)
  The noun LORDSHIP has 2 senses:

1. a title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge

2. the authority of a lord

  Familiarity information: LORDSHIP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LORDSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

His Lordship

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

title (an appellation signifying nobility)

Derivation:

Lord (a titled peer of the realm)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

The lordship of man was a need of his nature.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He said:—I would like to oblige you if I could, Mr. Harker, and especially would I like to oblige his lordship.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I think that there you ask a little too much,” responded his Lordship.

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

You can think at such a moment—But, ah, is it not his lordship’s step that I hear?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His lordship did so; and I remained alone, under many doubts and perplexities of mind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“I have heard of your lordship's valiant deeds, and in sooth they might be expected from your lordship's face and bearing. Is there any small matter in which I may oblige you?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am not in the habit of being taken to task in the fashion which seems to be customary with your lordship.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first was from the Admiral to inform his nephew, in a few words, of his having succeeded in the object he had undertaken, the promotion of young Price, and enclosing two more, one from the Secretary of the First Lord to a friend, whom the Admiral had set to work in the business, the other from that friend to himself, by which it appeared that his lordship had the very great happiness of attending to the recommendation of Sir Charles; that Sir Charles was much delighted in having such an opportunity of proving his regard for Admiral Crawford, and that the circumstance of Mr. William Price's commission as Second Lieutenant of H.M. Sloop Thrush being made out was spreading general joy through a wide circle of great people.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Your lordship told me to rush to you if it should come,” he explained, holding out a large blue envelope.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We beg, with regard to the desire of your Lordship, expressed by Mr. Harker on your behalf, to supply the following information concerning the sale and purchase of No. 347, Piccadilly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)