earlship

American  

[url-ship] / ˈɜrl ʃɪp /

noun

1. earldom.

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Etymology

Origin of earlship

before 1000; Middle English; Old English eorlscipe. See earl, -ship

Example Sentences

Oh, your earlship," she remarked, "this, by the way, is Mr. Laffie Brice-Ashton.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

But the host-gear befretted he held many seasons, 2620 The bill and the byrny, until his own boy might Do him the earlship as did his ere-father.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

I thank your noble earlship, Sir Gilbert Hay, but the yoke with which your brave ancestor turned the battle at Loncarty would serve my turn well enough.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

For Offa by arms while only a child, First among fighters won the fairest of kingdoms; 40 Not any of his age in earlship surpassed him.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

Furthermore, a man who found it so easy to be disloyal could not safely be entrusted with such great territorial authority as the earlship of Mercia.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus