different between ladyship vs lordship
ladyship
English
Etymology
lady +? -ship
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?le?.di.??p/
Noun
ladyship (plural ladyships)
- Term of respect for a woman of the peerage without using her title.
- "Her ladyship will be unable to attend tonight," he said, with a wink because he hadn't said why.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]
- York got down and said very respectfully, "I beg your pardon, my lady, but these horses have not been reined up for three years, and my lord said it would be safer to bring them to it by degrees; but if your ladyship pleases, I can take them up a little more."
- (English and Commonwealth) Formal form of address for a lady judge (as opposed to the informal "judge").
Translations
See also
- lordship
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lordship
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)
- 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.
- 2004, Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 27
- (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.'
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- (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
- 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.
- ca. 1690, John Dryden (translator), Juvenal (author), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal:
- 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
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