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
"Given the nature of the convictions, the accused accepts your lordship must impose a significant sentence of imprisonment."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2017
Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
"One of us, 'is lordship said. Which one? That's what I want to know. Who's the fiend in 'uman form?"
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
