Meaning of queenship | Babel Free

Definitions

The rank, status, position, or dignity of a queen.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: queenliness”

“In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.”

“Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.”

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