Meaning of princessship | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of princess-ship.

form-of, no-plural, rare

Examples

“Dor. I have been told, noble Squire, that you once impos’d a certain lady for Dulcinea on your maſter; now what think you if this young lady here ſhould perſonate that incomparable princeſs? / Jez. Who, I? / San. Adod! your princeſsſhip has hit it; for he has never ſeen this Dulcinea, nor has any body elſe, that I can hear of;”

“Farewell! Success attend you all! But now / I drop my royal princessship to bow / Before our friends, and humbly crave for leave / To speak the Epilogue, which may receive / Acceptance as the substituted close / To this our acted play […]”

“On the strength of her presumable princessship she had gone on another excursion to Boston carrying the Lambert twins with her this time and had returned laden with all manner of feminine fripperies.”

“The cautious woman alert to her queenship began to supersede the gentle girl of the princessship.”

“Di, in the divorce settlement, gave up her princessship (is that a word?), despite what the press and everyone else said.”

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