princessship

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A form of princess-ship — The dignity, rank, or office of a princess.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounprincessship (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralrareRare form of princess-ship.

    The cautious woman alert to her queenship began to supersede the gentle girl of the princessship.

    1962, Mary Milbank Brown, The Secret History of Jeanne D'Arc: Princess, Maid of Orleans
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    Dor. I have been told, noble Squire, that you once impos’d a certain lady for Dulcinea on your maſter; now what think you if this young lady here ſhould perſonate that incomparable princeſs? / Jez. Who, I? / San. Adod! your princeſsſhip has hit it; for he has never ſeen this Dulcinea, nor has any body elſe, that I can hear of;

    1767, Henry Fielding, The Works of Henry Fielding: In Twelve Volumes, with the Life of the Author, volume 3, page 273

    Farewell! Success attend you all! But now / I drop my royal princessship to bow / Before our friends, and humbly crave for leave / To speak the Epilogue, which may receive / Acceptance as the substituted close / To this our acted play […]

    1881, Mary Cowden Clarke, Honey from the Weed: Verses, Paul, Charles Kegan, page 208

    On the strength of her presumable princessship she had gone on another excursion to Boston carrying the Lambert twins with her this time and had returned laden with all manner of feminine fripperies.

    1921, Margaret Piper Chalmers, Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth, page 348

    Di, in the divorce settlement, gave up her princessship (is that a word?), despite what the press and everyone else said.

    1997 September 6, Kurt Ullman, “Re: A disrespect to Diana”, in uk.politics.constitution (Usenet), message-ID <19970906011501.VAA20920@ladder02.news.aol.com>
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