Definition of "lordships" []

• Plural form of lordship. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "If in any thing I may have wandered beyond the limits which my situation imposed, I implore of your lordships to attribute it to the embarrassment and novelty of my position—my inexperience in the forms and usages of your lordships’ House."
• "And that other sorrowed sore, and went to Rome and was received into the grace of Gaius the emperor, and he gave to him two lordships, that is to say of Lisania and Abilina, and crowned him, and sent him king into the Jewry."
• "It is true, that when I found it necessary to withdraw from the government, I also thought it my duty to lay down the military office which I hold; but I beg leave to call your lordships 'recollection to the explanation which I gave at that time, and to my subsequent conduct."