grandeeship

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

grandee +‎ -ship

NounEdit

grandeeship (countable and uncountable, plural grandeeships)

  1. The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.
    • 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776
      I think the Conde de Altamira has no less than nineteen Grandeeships centered in his person

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ReferencesEdit

grandeeship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913