What's the difference between grandeeship and lordship?

Grandeeship


Definition:

  • (n.) The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.

Example Sentences:

Lordship


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
  • (n.) Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
  • (n.) Dominion; power; authority.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His lordship is desperate to avoid joining them, but as the weeks pass his occasional giggles at the absurd scale of his task begin to seem faintly hysterical.
  • (2) "In our opinion, the seriousness of this case does merit an immediate custodial sentence but we feel constrained by the decision of their lordships.
  • (3) That is why His Lordship has such a very fine mansion.
  • (4) And at the end of the day his Lordship – my Lord?
  • (5) "I wasn't a criminal yesterday but I'm certainly a criminal today … But I do not propose to take the permission of their lordships when deciding who to love and who to make love with."
  • (6) It doesn't have to be this way, as there are some inspirational examples of community-led regeneration, not least in Tottenham, where residents have led the positive transformation of the Broadwater Farm estate and of the adjacent Lordship Rec.
  • (7) X-Wealth has his Lordship at number four in its UK rankings.
  • (8) As for his lordship, he is ebullient as ever and feels vindicated that he can defend “the values that led me to join the Liberal party in my teens”.
  • (9) Archibald was granted the Lordship of Galloway and immediately set to work building a castle.
  • (10) Members of her lordship’s house … are right thieves, rogues and bastards at times.
  • (11) "All those witnesses lied to your lordship when they gave evidence.
  • (12) It has been an unhappy time for Lord Smith and no doubt his lordship is reflecting on the feedback he has got from the people of Somerset.
  • (13) The feudal lordship title will also allow the owner to apply to the College of Arms for an individual coat of arms.
  • (14) We have a pope: His most Eminent and Reverend Lordship, Lord …” followed by the Latin version of the chosen cardinal’s first name, and then his surname.
  • (15) The presenter had one small stink bomb yet to lob at his lordship on his way out the door.
  • (16) "Murderers," shouted one man clutching a stereo as a police van drove past on Lordship Lane at around 3.45am.
  • (17) The Arbroath document was an appeal to the pope for Scotland to be recognised as an independent sovereign state free from England's feudal lordship under Edward II.
  • (18) Indeed I had a comical one with his lordship not long ago, when I suggested at a party that we might talk in more detail about the Lib Dem outlook in marginal seats, a subject on which he is an undoubted expert.
  • (19) There is a general atmosphere [in the music business] of resentment, pressure, kind of strange perpetual war, and I think prosecuting some college kid because she or he shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia a couple of hundred years ago for poaching his lordship’s rabbit.
  • (20) My first job was to go through a book of high-profile events and awards ceremonies, call the organisers and see if his lordship was invited.

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