Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation esquire (title)
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Abbreviations of esquire, as an appended title.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name
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Examples
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Garrett Sutton, Esq. is a corporate lawyer and author your own society and other titles in the series Rich Dad Advisor.
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Any man who is entitled to the Esq. is a gentleman, by which an Englishman means a man of sound connections and what is regarded as dignified occupationin brief, of ponderable social position.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 3. Honorifics Henry Louis 1921
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There is a model of a steamboat to be seen on the Chesapeake, invented and constructed by Cyrus Williams, Esq., which is exciting considerable interest among steamboat men.
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Don't forget to add "Esq." to your name on all correspondence.
Lesley Stern: How to Live On $0 a Day: Bailouts for the Rest of Us 2009
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“Who is this broad with an "Esq." after her name slamming divorce lawyers?” you may ask yourself.
Belinda Etezad Rachman: Divorce Lawyers and the Reptilian Brain 2009
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Once I had passed the bar and had that law license and could put "Esq." behind my name on official law firm letterhead, I was a lawyer, for better or worse, who would be expected to be as prepared and ready on all oral argument topics as any other lawyer, even if they had 30 years experience and I had less than one.
Joanne Bamberger: Sorry, Sarah Palin, Sometimes Life Isn't Fair 2008
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From him I learned to assiduously avoid attaching "Esq." to my own name.
Howard Dean appreciates my tremendous support. Ann Althouse 2005
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In what looks like it may be a repeat of the RIAA’s litigation against individual music piraters, Eriq Gardner at THR, Esq. is reporting that over 20,000 movie torrent downloaders have been sued recently for copyright infringement by US Copyright Group in Washington D.C. federal court.
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The abbreviation "Esq." for Esquire is sometimes used; but the two titles Mr. and Esq. should never be used with one name, as "Mr. John Smith, Esq."
Business Hints for Men and Women Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
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For instance, in matter-of-course business, or in any correspondence that was agreeable to official persons, I was addressed as "Esq.;" but if the correspondence took a turn that was unpleasant, it was "Mr. ----;" and on one occasion I received a note addressed with my name denuded of all title whatever, even of the office I filled.
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