earlship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of earlship
before 1000; Middle English; Old English eorlscipe. See earl, -ship
Example Sentences
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When you emerged from your humble Mancunian roots, you found love—and a future earlship—on the other side of the Pennines.
From Slate
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 Project Gutenberg
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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