lordship
Example Sentences
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“It would be superfluous in me,” Abraham Lincoln’s emissary Charles Francis Adams wrote to the British foreign secretary, “to point out to your lordship that this is war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
They demanded the end of lordship and recognized no authority but the king’s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
He helped the French king in his fight against the English, and was rewarded with the lordship of Aubigny.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2014
It is worth pointing out, furthermore, that his lordship had by that time severed all links with the 'blackshirts', having witnessed the true, ugly nature of that organization.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
