earlship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of earlship
before 1000; Middle English; Old English eorlscipe. See earl, -ship
Example Sentences
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My dear boy, you're in training for the future earlship.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
For Offa by arms while only a child, First among fighters won the fairest of kingdoms; 40 Not any of his age in earlship surpassed him.
From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various
I thank your noble earlship, Sir Gilbert Hay, but the yoke with which your brave ancestor turned the battle at Loncarty would serve my turn well enough.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
"His honorable earlship, then—since mamma is with us."
From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
Furthermore, a man who found it so easy to be disloyal could not safely be entrusted with such great territorial authority as the earlship of Mercia.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
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