lordhood

English

Alternative forms
  • Lordhood

Etymology

From lord +‎ -hood.

Noun

lordhood (usually uncountable, plural lordhoods)

  1. 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.

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