lordhood

English

Alternative forms

• Lordhood

Etymology

From lord ‎ -hood.

Noun

lordhood (usually uncountable, plural lordhoods)

1. The state, quality, or condition of a lord
   • 1857, Thomas Carlyle, Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished:

     Philip Herbert may expect knighthoods, lordhoods, court-promotions: neither did his heroic mother ' tear her hair,' I think, to any great extent,——except in the imaginations of Osborne, Pinchbeck and such like.

   • 1883, Walt Whitman, Specimen days & collect - Page 290:

     The old Norman lordhood quality here, too, cross' d with that Saxon fiber from which twain the best current stock of England springs — poetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do.

Synonyms

• lordship

See also

• lorddom