mistressship

See also: mistress-ship

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

mistress + -ship

Noun

mistressship (usually uncountable, plural mistressships)

  1. (obsolete) Female rule or dominion.
  2. (obsolete) ladyship; a style of address, used with the personal pronoun.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mistressship in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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