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Definition of Earldom
1. Noun. The dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess.
2. Noun. The domain controlled by an earl or count or countess.
Definition of Earldom
1. n. The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.
Definition of Earldom
1. Noun. the rank of being an earl ¹
2. Noun. The territory controlled by an earl ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earldom
1. the rank of an earl [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earldom
Literary usage of Earldom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"His name still survives within his father's earldom, where it cleaves to an
existing parish and to the site of a castle of which the site only is to be ..."
2. A Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"He took, however, not by right of inheritance, but. in every sense of the term,
by purchase, and, as the chronicler expresses it,' administered the earldom ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... and the earldom passed to a descendant of the eleventh earl, ... House of
Lords referred the whole question to the judges, who adjudged the earldom to ..."
4. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United by George Edward Cokayne (1896)
"I. 1720. earldom [I]. Vil. 174G. earldom [I.] VIII. ... 451, note " c," as to
papers relating to a claim to the earldom of Tyrone in about 1717. ..."
5. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1880)
"... and extending between the river Don and its tributary the Ury. The second was
the earldom of ..."
6. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"Elizabeth Countess of Lenox to Lord Burghley, thanking him for using his interest
with the Scottish Ambassador that the earldom of Lenox might devolve upon ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"Queen Mary and her parliament, and the earldom of Mar again appeared in the roll
of Scotish peers. The loss of a portrait, probably the gift of his royal ..."
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