grandeeship
(grænˈdiːʃɪp)
[f. grandee + -ship.]
The position or dignity of a grandee.
| 1776 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xlii. (1779) 386 The Conde de Altamira has no less than nineteen grandeeships centered in his person. 1879 Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 268 The duke represents ten grandeeships of the first class. |
| fig. 1890 Blackw. Mag. CXLVII. 177/1 He inherited..his father's grandeeship of manner. |