Mistressship
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Rule or dominion of one who is mistress; authority exercised by a woman.
noun.
Ladyship: a style of address, preceded by a possessive pronoun: as, your
mistress-ship.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Female rule or dominion.
noun.
Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
Female
rule
or
dominion
.
noun.
ladyship
; a style of address, used with the
personal pronoun
.
Word Usage
"Corney obeyed: in some strange, lovely way she had got the mistressship of his conscience as well as his heart."