0 a polite way of referring to or talking to a woman or girl who has the rank of a peer or knight without using her title: --
When she found out who her guest was her ladyship sought and effected a speedy reconciliation.
Other formal forms of address included "vuestra excelencia" (your excellence abbreviated as ussencia) and "vuestra seoria" (your lordship/ladyship abbreviated as ussia).
My humble duty premised unto your good ladyship...
In later years, her ladyship suffered from severe bouts of asthma and had spent the autumn on the continent.
This same gentleman now found himself compelled to ask whether her ladyship would let a part of the farm separately—a thing he had said himself would be foolish to do.
