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earldom|ˈɜːldəm|
[f. earl n. + -dom.]
The domain or territory governed by an earl (obs. exc. Hist.); the rank or dignity of an earl.
a1123O.E. Chron. an. 1053 (Laud MS.) Feng ælfgar eorl to ðam eorldome þe Harold ær ahte. 1297R. Glouc. 523 Sir Peris de Roches..The king ȝet..erldom of Gloucestre. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 85 Two and þritti schires..þat now beeþ i-cleped erldoms. 1495Act 2 Hen. VII, xxxiii. §2 Londes and tenementes parcelles of the seid Erledome of Marche. 1530Palsgr. 49 Conte, an erledom. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. ii. 93, I clayme the gift..Th' Earledome of Hertford, Which you haue promised. 1682Dryden Satyr 124 Others with Titles and new Earldoms Caught. a1745Swift Lett. (1768) IV. 317 [Henry II] bequeathed that earldom [Anjou] to the second [son] in his last sickness. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 118 Robert Guiscard, about 1059, united in his own person all these earldoms. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 537 His marquisate became extinct; but his son was permitted to inherit the ancient earldom. 1874Daily News 17 Feb. 3/4 The accession of Viscount St. Lawrence to the earldom of Howth.
fig.1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 88 The erldom of enuye and yre he hym graunteþ. |