lordhood
English
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[edit]lordhood (usually uncountable, plural lordhoods)
- The state, quality, or condition of a lord
- 1857, Thomas Carlyle, Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished:
- Philip Herbert may expect knighthoods, lordhoods, court-promotions: neither did his heroic mother ' tear her hair,' I think, to any great extent,——except in the imaginations of Osborne, Pinchbeck and such like.
- 1883, Walt Whitman, Specimen days & collect - Page 290:
- The old Norman lordhood quality here, too, cross' d with that Saxon fiber from which twain the best current stock of England springs — poetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do.