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earl·dom

(ûrl′dəm)

1. The rank or title of an earl.

2. The territory of an earl.

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earldom

(ˈɜːldəm)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the rank, title, or dignity of an earl or countess

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the lands of an earl or countess

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earl•dom

(ˈɜrl dəm)

n.

1. Also called earlship. the rank or title of an earl.

2. the territory or jurisdiction of an earl.

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Noun	1.	earldom - the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
	2.	earldom - the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess demesne, domain, land - territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"

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графство

earldom

[ˈɜːldəm] N → condado m

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earldom

n (= land) → Grafschaft f; (= title) → Grafentitel m; (= rank) → Grafenstand m

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The Earldom of Envy, the Kingdom of Covetousness, the Isle of Usury were granted as marriage gifts to the pair.

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But there is nought in the world so easily forgot as gratitude; so, when the Prioress of Kirklees had heard how her cousin, the Earl of Huntingdon, had thrown away his earldom and gone back again to Sherwood, she was vexed to the soul, and feared lest her cousinship with him should bring the King's wrath upon her also.

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"My dear Celia," said the Dowager, "James's title is worth far more than any new earldom. I never wished his father to be anything else than Sir James."

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The chief of these, George Herbert (1593-1633), the subject of one of the most delightful of the short biographies of Izaak Walton, belonged to a distinguished family of the Welsh Border, one branch of which held the earldom of Pembroke, so that the poet was related to the young noble who may have been Shakspere's patron.

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Pyncheon's property--to be measured by miles, not acres--would be worth an earldom, and would reasonably entitle him to solicit, or enable him to purchase, that elevated dignity from the British monarch.

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Believe me I would give, Freely would give the broad lands of my earldom To look upon the face hidden by yon lattice -- "To gaze upon that veiled face, and hear Once more that silent tongue."

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The earldom of Desmond; 1463-1583, the decline and crisis of a feudal lordship.

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Since the Craven baronetcy became an earldom, no Earl of Craven has lived beyond 57, the age William died.

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The Wessex earldom dates back to King Harold of Battle of Hastings fame (depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, top).

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Her husband, who wrote words for songs by Robert Dowland, his godson, inherited the Dudley money and was given the former Dudley viscounty of L'Isle and earldom of Leicester by James I.

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"Princess Eugenie's children will not have titles unless the Queen decides to bestow an earldom on Jack Brooksbank," she said.