overlordship

American  

[oh-ver-lawrd-ship] / ˈoʊ vərˌlɔrd ʃɪp /

noun

plural

overlordships

1. the fact of being an overlord; the position, power, or domain of an overlord.

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Example Sentences

For 1,000 years, the Lithuanian state had a long and tortured history of kingdom, empire, union with Poland and overlordship by Russia.

From Seattle Times

And he claims that Magna Carta guaranteed Scotland's survival as an independent state by reversing efforts by John to assert feudal overlordship of the kingdom.

From BBC

They are aware that a change of overlordship means simply that they will be doing the same work as before for new masters who treat them in the same manner as the old ones.

From Literature

In Greece itself the overlordship to which the Macedonian king aspires is imperfect in extent and only maintained to that extent by continual wars.

From Project Gutenberg

The monarch was rapidly acquiring a centralized power, which was very different from the overlordship of a feudal suzerain.

From Project Gutenberg