different between barony vs lordship

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæ.??.ni/

Noun

barony (plural baronies)

1. The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire.
   1. (historical, Ireland) Synonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties.
      • a. 1687, W. Petty, The Political Anatomy of Ireland, page 326:

        In Ireland... an head constable for each barony or hundred, being 252.

      • 1873, General Report on the Census of England, volume IV, page 181:

        The Baronies appear to have been formed successively on the submission of the Irish chiefs... the territory of each constituting a barony.

   2. (Scotland) Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank.
2. (obsolete) The baronage: the body of barons in a realm.
3. Baronship, the rank or position of a baron.
4. (law) The legal tenure of a baron's land; military tenure.

Synonyms

• (administrative division): See hundred

Hyponyms

• (administrative division): See carucate (¹?₁₀₀ barony & for other subdivisions)

Translations

Anagrams

• Brayon, Raybon, baryon

English

Etymology

From lord +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??d.??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??d.??p/

Noun

lordship (countable and uncountable, plural lordships)

1. The state or condition of being a lord.
   • 2004, Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 27

     For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service […]

   • 2011, Daniel Frankforter, Word of God - Words of Men: The Use and Abuse of Scripture, page 93

     Lordship entails both privilege and responsibility. Lords have power over their subjects, but that power is granted them so that they can protect and provide for others.

2. (by extension, with "his" or "your", often capitalised) Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

     'He's had his bath,' she said. 'He's just had his bath, bless his little lordship's heart.'
3. (humorous, with "his" or "your") A boy or man who is behaving in a seigneurial manner or acting like a lord, behaving in a bossy manner or lording it up
4. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
   • ca. 1690, John Dryden (translator), Juvenal (author), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal:

     What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.

   • 1832, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, volume I, page 425

     […] for whose ransom he compelled Lord Percy to build the castle of Punnoon, in the lordship of Eaglesham.

5. Dominion; power; authority.

   • But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

Translations

See also

• ladyship
• your Grace (form to address archbishops, and some bishops)
• Your Honour, your Honor (for judges)

Anagrams

• shiplord