Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The rank or title of an earl.
- noun The territory of an earl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seigniory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an earl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.
- noun The status, title, or dignity of an earl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
rank of being anearl - noun The
territory controlled by an earl
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess
- noun the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess
Etymologies
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Examples
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For him, the earldom was a private treasure chest, not an estate that fed thousands of people.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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To the garter nobody can have slenderer pretensions; his family is scarce older than his earldom, which is of the youngest.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.
Law 2010
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One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.
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Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.
Kings and Princes 2009
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Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Augustus Hare described it as “an imitation, not a caricature of the best Italian models,” was built for R.S. Holford in 1851-53 on the site of an older house of the same name belonging to the extinct earldom of Dorchester.
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Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded.
Kings and Princes 2009
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