单词 | your earlship |
释义 | > as lemmasyour earlship 2. The office, rank, or title of earl; the period in which an earl holds his title. Also used with possessive adjective as an honorific title (as your earlship, etc.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > earl, count, or countess > [noun] > earl or count > rank of earl or count earldomOE earlship?1588 countship1658 ?1588 in Eng. Lit. Renaissance (1978) 8 153 His Earlshipe most joyfullye pressed forowardes to enter in. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Sussex 112 Yet is there no fear that the shortness of his Earlship will make his Name forgotten, having erected a Monument which will perpetuate his Memory to all Posterity. 1695 Drayton's England's Heroical Epist. (new ed.) 109 How should he with our Princes else be plac'd, To have his Earlship with a Dukedome grac'd. 1719 J. Jackman Presbyterian Ordination Presumptuous 69 The superiority of William and James to Commoners depended on their Earlship. 1792 Brooke's Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) V. 268 Allow me to repair my omission by presenting to your earlship [1770 your lordship] her little highness Abenaide . 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 295 I thank your noble earlship. 1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. 115 The formation of the new great earlships. 1918 W. A. Fraser Three Sapphires xx. 291 My dear boy, you're in training for the future earlship. 2004 E. Layton Return of Earl x. 155 I'd have dressed proper if I'd the time, your earlship. < as lemmas |
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