lordship Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge
    • Your Lordship
    • His Lordship
  2. noun the authority of a lord

WordNet

Lord"ship noun
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
    What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber. Dryden.
  3. Dominion; power; authority.
    They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.

Webster 1913