landlordshipn.
The position or condition of a landlord; the tenure of such a position. Also, with possessive pronoun, used as a title.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > landlord > position or condition of
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > with temporary accommodation > innkeeping > innkeeper or hotelier > position of
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1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 15 The evil system of middle-landlordship.]
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 44 [He] did not intend to retire yet awhile to the landlordship of the Bell.
1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. 199 Neither British constitution nor British law..can keep your landlordships safe.
1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 172 Lordship in becoming landlordship begins to lose its most dangerous element.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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