queenship

[ kween-ship ]

noun

1. the state, office, or dignity of a queen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of queenship¹

First recorded in 1530–40; queen + -ship

Example Sentences

She looked as Eurydice when her captor-King carried her away from earth and gave her instead the queenship of Hell.

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The latter phrase brings Her Majesty before us in the grandeur and splendour of her Queenship.

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We humbly thanked her queenship without saying a word, accepting of the noble office she conferred on us.

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Then Geber's michelots conducted us, and we were set down among her abstractors, as her queenship had commanded.

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Casilda takes no pleasure in this sudden accession to Queenship.

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