ludship

Noun

lordship (countable and uncountable, plural lordships)

1. The state or condition of being a lord.
   • For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service[…]2004, Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 27
2. (broadly, capitalized, often) Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.
   • May I ask that the order be granted, if your lordship so pleases?
3. (humorous) A man (sometimes a boy) who is behaving in a seigneurial manner or acting like a lord, behaving in a bossy manner or lording it up
4. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
   • What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.c. 1690, Juvenal, translated by John Dryden, The Tenth Satire of Juvenal
5. Dominion; power; authority.
   • But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 10:42