earlship

[url-ship]

noun

Origin of earlship

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

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Kalf listened joyfully; Canute's speech appealed to him; "and now he began to yearn for the earlship."
Canute the Great
Laurence Marcellus Larson