LORDSHIP Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

lordship

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Definition of lordship

as in dominion

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Recent Examples of lordship The standout is the lordship apartment sequence [in Episode 2] and the jump off the balcony. — Leia Mendoza, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025 Under the Zhou dynasty, many smaller lordships fought for power in their regions including Hubei Province where the tombs are buried, according to Britannica. — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024 In 1606, the estate’s lordship was acquired by Jean Sève, a Calvinist who played an important role in the uprising that led to Lyon coming back under the authority of Henry IV in 1594. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024 Oliver has a chance to do Felix a favor—his lordship is late for class, and his bike has a flat. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023 To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature. — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023 This sounds like a mutually beneficial arrangement between his lordship and the royal spouse. — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021

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Noun

In the past, the principal solvent of Europe’s imperial dominions was the growing reluctance of people in the metropole to bear the financial and military burden.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Faced with the dominion of the identical copy, some modern artists chose to celebrate it; others took a more critical, even antagonistic stance.

— Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of dominion

Noun

The prince didn’t have any luck in blocking Kelce, which comes as little surprise given the Chiefs star knows how to avoid defensive players.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
The crown prince revealed a bold ambition to transform the kingdom, and the region, by 2030.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of prince

Noun

Lula has instead emphasized multilateralism, ties with the Global South and China — Brazil’s largest export market — and his resistance to Trump’s tariff measures as a defense of national sovereignty.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
The three providers built around European technology received a higher sovereignty rating.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of sovereignty

Noun

After the duke’s death in 1972, the duchess, in increasingly poor health, fretted about what to do with her massive collection.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
This was a period of revolutions and secularization, when the church could not depend on the military leadership of a king, duke or the nobility.

— Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

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Yet the major takeaway from this season is arguably the humbling of Diana Taverner, whose ascendancy to First Desk resulted in some growing pains, to say the least.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
The liberal ascendancy that followed the American triumph in the Cold War—with the subsequent expansion of both democracy and free markets—is now over.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of ascendancy

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In the 13th century, as the Magna Carta encoded the rights of English barons, the Carta de Foresta laid out the rights of commoners to pasture cattle in the open places among the English forests.

— James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026
At one point, Soulan points out that the crime of fuel-smuggling is minor compared to the barons profiting off the very same — and shouldn’t the motivation, the practical outcome of the act, count for something?

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

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After that war had ended, the period of Democratic hegemony under President Franklin Roosevelt also ended, and abruptly, with the results of the midterm of 1946.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
In antiquity, Rome’s aqueducts and China’s canals and flood-control works were the pipelines of centuries of hegemony.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hegemony

Noun

Burnard and O’Shaughnessy point out that, whereas Britain regularly sent nobles to govern the Caribbean colonies—and dukes and earls to Ireland—the men appointed to administer the thirteen colonies more often lacked titles and were paid less.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
While this is partly because her father is an earl, the other part of her background honors the fact that her mother was a housemaid.

— Patricia A. Matthew, Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026

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