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squirehood|ˈskwaɪəhʊd|
[f. squire n.]
1. The position or status of a squire or esquire; squireship. Also used as a title.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 91 To which Purpose he brings his Squirehood and Groom to vouch. 1721Swift Lett. King at Arms Wks. 1841 II. 70/2 If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity. 1801Spirit Pub. Jrnls. V. 376 The rage of Squire-hood is now so universal, that one of my humble race, a simple Gent, is hardly to be met with in his Majesty's dominions! 1814Scott Chivalry (1874) 34 The sumptuary laws of squirehood were not particularly attended to.
2. The body of squires; the squirearchy.
1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 438 In the governing people, the old false principles were quite worn out. In the squire⁓hood, the pretence of them..still existed. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 331 Neither the squirehood nor the priesthood can persuade anybody to prop open his gates, that the pigs may run into his potato-field. 1850W. P. Scargill Eng. Sketch-Bk. 6 Both these gentlemen had their intimacies among the squirehoods of their respective neighbourhoods. |