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lairdship

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Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being a laird.

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle Scots lairdschip (modern Scots lairdship), from Early Scots lardschip, from Old English hlāfordsċipe; by surface analysis, laird + -ship and a doublet of lordship.

Used in a sentence

  • He would as soon have thought of wearing a white linen shirt or having the lairdship of a barony, as of getting ham to his breakfast.
  • II. I whyles claw the elbow o' troublesome thought; But man is a sodger, and life is a faught: My mirth and guid humour are coin in my pouch, And my freedom's my lairdship nae monarch dare touch.
  • They talked of affairs, particular and general, of Ian's late proceedings and the lairdship of Alexander, of men and places that they knew away from this countryside.

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