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mistressship en · NOUN

Etymology

From mistress + -ship.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) Female rule or dominion.
2. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) ladyship; a style of address, used with the personal pronoun.
   • Your father was / An honest country farmer, goodman Humble. / By his neighbours ne'er call'd Master. Did your pride / Descend from him? but let that pass: your fortune, / Or rather your hunsband's industry, advanced you / To the rank of a merchant's wife. He made a knight, / And your sweet mistress-ship ladyfied, 1632, Philip Massinger, “The City Madam”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 4, scene 4, page 400:

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