lordship
Example Sentences
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“It would be superfluous in me,” Abraham Lincoln’s emissary Charles Francis Adams wrote to the British foreign secretary, “to point out to your lordship that this is war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
I hope your comment on Dick Pound being impressed by Coe's lordship and medal was written in the spirit of satire.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
He helped the French king in his fight against the English, and was rewarded with the lordship of Aubigny.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2014
One hundred thousand golden dragons, fifty hides of fertile land, a castle, and a lordship.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
