squiredom

[ skwahyuhr-duhm ]

noun

1. the squirearchy.
2. the position or status of a squire.

Word History and Origins

Origin of squiredom¹

First recorded in 1640–50; squire + -dom

Example Sentences

“If you look back in our family tree, the survival of this clan is literally rooted in squiredom. We are all related to senators too,” she writes.

From Fox News

The hearty and vigorous tone of squiredom, young and old, could not understand it as a passion or a pursuit, and they mainly agreed that nothing but some strange perversion could have made the generous nature of old Barrington so fond of law.

From Project Gutenberg

It appealed also to that sense of common human life, which is the fine flower of squiredom.

From Project Gutenberg

He and the Squire had been friends at Eton, and also at Cambridge, after which Lord Sedbergh had embraced a diplomatic career, until such time as he had succeeded to the family honours, while Edward Clinton, after a brief period of metropolitan glory as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards, had married early and settled down to a life of undiluted squiredom.

From Project Gutenberg

He managed to buy out a station immediately adjoining Archie’s, and when he had got fairly established thereon he told his brother Ramsay that fifteen years had tumbled off his shoulders all in a lump—fifteen years of care and trouble, fifteen years of struggle to keep his head above water, and live up to his squiredom.

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