Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rule or dominion of one who is mistress; authority exercised by a woman.
- noun Ladyship: a style of address, preceded by a possessive pronoun: as, your mistress-ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Female rule or dominion.
- noun obsolete Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Female rule ordominion . - noun obsolete
ladyship ; a style of address, used with thepersonal pronoun .
Etymologies
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mistress + -ship
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Examples
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Corney obeyed: in some strange, lovely way she had got the mistressship of his conscience as well as his heart.
Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864
bilby commented on the word mistressship
Madam puts on airs and graces but is clearly in hock to the big-S industry.
June 8, 2022