Lordship vs Lordly - What's the difference?
lordship | lordly |
The state or condition of being a lord.
* 2004 , Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , page 27
* 2011 , Daniel Frankforter, Word of God - Words of Men: The Use and Abuse of Scripture , page 93
Title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a formal form of address applied to a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
* 1946 , (Mervyn Peake), (Titus Groan)
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
* ca. 1690 , (John Dryden) (translator), (Juvenal) (author), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal :
* 1832 , John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire , volume I, page 425
Dominion; power; authority.
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(obsolete) of or relating to a lord.
Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
* Bible, Judges v. 25
* Tennyson
* 1849 — , chapter 27
* 1897 — , chapter 27
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
* Milton
In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
* 1891 , , The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation ,
* {{quote-book, 1925, Claude Kean, Stock Charges Against the Bible, year_published=2003
, passage=Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.}}
As a noun lordship
is the state or condition of being a lord.As an adjective lordly is
(obsolete) of or relating to a lord.As an adverb lordly is
in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility.lordship
English
Noun
(en noun)- For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service
- 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.
- 'He's had his bath,' she said. 'He's just had his bath, bless his little lordship' s heart.'
- What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.
- for whose ransom he compelled Lord Percy to build the castle of Punnoon, in the lordship of Eaglesham.
- 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.
See also
* ladyship * Your Honour, your Honor (for judges)lordly
English
Adjective
- Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.
- It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;
- There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
- Lords are lordliest in their wine.
Adverb
(er)]Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3igAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=lordly page 56,
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