Definition of "overlordship" []

• The position or quality of being an overlord. (noun)

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• "We have now arrived at the commencement of the long dispute about the "overlordship"."
• "During the last weeks of Martin's wooing, she had withdrawn herself a little from the business of the farm into a kind of overlordship, from which she was far more free to detach herself than from personal service."
• "The possession of Mantua was decisive of Italian destiny, for its holder could command a kind of overlordship in every little Italian state."