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Word Meanings - GRANDEESHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.

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  • GRANDEESHIP
    The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
  • LORDSHIP
    1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence , a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge , etc. 2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and
  • GRANDEE
    A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
  • ESTATE
    The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • INTESTATE
    1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
  • OVERLORDSHIP
    Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others. J. R. Green.
  • DETESTATE
    To detest. Udall.
  • POTESTATE
    A chief ruler; a potentate. Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.
  • RESTATE
    To state anew. Palfrey.
  • TESTATE
    Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.
  • COESTATE
    Joint estate. Smolett.

 

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