(n.) The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).
Example Sentences:
(1) Supported by Tomorrow Venture, an investment firm run by Google executive Eric Schmidt, her ladyship also partnered with Zynga's outrageously popular Facebook game FarmVille to produce GagaVille, in which users could unleash new Gaga tracks as they played the game.
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.