lorddom

plural lorddoms · alternative lord-dom

1. The authority, rule, jurisdiction, sovereignty, or domain of a lord

   It was Chauncey DeGrandis, lord of the manor, trying in vain to assert his lord-dom.

   2013, Alex Bledsoe, Swords Are My Business

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   The saloons of the Roman Emperor, even yet fresh with their gilding, serve as cool subterranean wine-cellars to the English baronet, who, with the King of Naples and the Irish Franciscans, shares the lorddom of the Palatine."

   1824, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 7, page 221

   … And lull, meanwhile, war's barbarous business all To slumbrous rest the lands and seas around: For thou alone our mortal hearts canst help With hushful peace. Since Mars armipotent, That over war's wild labours lorddom wields, …

   1869, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Earl of), Orval - Page 314

   And by lorddom no patriot swears. Our longitude also between the great seas, Even should king and lorddom go down, Unfits us for joining our senate with theirs; [...]

   1881, David Flemming Little, Poems - Page 66

   And was it for this that the illustrious men of her family had been born — viceroys, archbishops and great captains who received titles and lorddoms from monarchs !

   1919, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, La Bodega: - Page 82

   Have they not all of lorddom at their heels, do they not hold the strings of Britain's purse?

   2007, Henry Ford, The International Jew - Page 19