lordship

Example Sentences

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They demanded the end of lordship and recognized no authority but the king’s.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

It says: "For, as long as 100 of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English."

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2021

Who may himself be a property developer now; one can’t keep track of the many business interests of his lordship.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2019

Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store? 

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2016

However, this option, quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling, entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro