earlship

[url-ship]

noun

1. earldom.

Word History and Origins

Origin of earlship¹

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

Example Sentences

When you emerged from your humble Mancunian roots, you found love—and a future earlship—on the other side of the Pennines.

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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.

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

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Now, I’ll go and see his Earlship and be good.

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My dear boy, you're in training for the future earlship.

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