Fromqueen +-ship.
queenship (countable anduncountable,pluralqueenships)
- The rank, status, position, or dignity of aqueen.
- Synonyms:queendom,queenhood
- Coordinate terms:kingship,kingdom,princessship,princessdom,princeship,princedom
- Near-synonym:queenliness
1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, inThe Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page117:In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside herqueenship and becomes a gentleLottie.
1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, inRenaissance Drama[1], volume25,→DOI, page 91 of 89–118:Elizabeth'squeenship 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.
the rank, status, position, or dignity of a queen
