[-SHIP.] The position or condition of a landlord; the tenure of such a position. Also, with poss. pron., used as a title.
[1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 15. The evil system of middle-landlordship.]
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. 44. [He] did not intend to retire yet awhile to the landlordship of the Bell.
1874. Ruskin, Fors Clav., IV. 199. Neither British constitution nor British law … can keep your landlordships safe.
1897. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 172. Lordship in becoming landlordship begins to lose its most dangerous element.
