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earldom

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noun

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

the territory or jurisdiction of an earl.

Origin:
before 1150; Middle English erldom, Old English eorldōm. See earl, -dom,

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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earldom (ˈɜːldəm)

—n
1.	the rank, title, or dignity of an earl or countess
2.	the lands of an earl or countess

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earldom

early 12c., from earl + -dom.

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"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.... He was fixed in the house of lords, that hospital of incurables, and his retreat to popularity was cut off; for the confidence of the public, when once great and once lost, is never to be regained."

-Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl

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