earldom
IPA: ˈɝɫdʌm
noun
- The rank of being an earl.
- The territory controlled by an earl.
Examples of "earldom" in Sentences
- Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded.
- For him, the earldom was a private treasure chest, not an estate that fed thousands of people.
- To the garter nobody can have slenderer pretensions; his family is scarce older than his earldom, which is of the youngest.
- Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.
- One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.
- Augustus Hare described it as “an imitation, not a caricature of the best Italian models,” was built for R.S. Holford in 1851-53 on the site of an older house of the same name belonging to the extinct earldom of Dorchester.