Word Meanings - LORDSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 lordships for their owner know My quondam barber. Dryden. 3. Dominion; power; authority. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LORDSHIP)

• Domain
• Estate
• lordship
• territory
• inclosure
• Dominance
• Lordship
• mastery
• superiority
• preponderance
• prevalence
• Nobility
• Distinction
• dignity
• rank
• peerage
• loftiness
• generosity
• aristocracy
• Supremacy
• Sovereignty
• nonsubjection
• autocracy

Related words: (words related to LORDSHIP)

• NOBILITY
  1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to
• GENEROSITY
  1. Noble birth. Harris . 2. The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow. 3. Liberality in giving; munificence. Syn.
• PEERAGE
  1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.
• 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
• LOFTINESS
  The state or quality of being lofty.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• PREVALENCE
  The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better
• SUPREMACY
  The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual
• SUPERIORITY
  The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
• AUTOCRACY
  The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. Dunglison. (more info) 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• 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
• TERRITORY
  1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or
• ARISTOCRACY
  meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. 1. Government by the best citizens. 2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world,
• DOMAIN
  Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. in the public domain
• SOVEREIGNTY
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• INCLOSURE
  1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence. 2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up. Within
• PREPONDERANCE; PREPONDERANCY
  The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should
• DOMINANCE; DOMINANCY
  Predominance; ascendency; authority.
• MASTERY
  1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Superiority in war or competition; victory;
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• 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.
• PREDOMINANCE
  The superior influence of a planet. Shak. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. The predominance of conscience over interest. South.
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• DETESTATE
  To detest. Udall.
• POTESTATE
  A chief ruler; a potentate. Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.