单词 | countly |
释义 | countlyadj. Of, relating to, or proper to a count. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > earl, count, or countess > [adjective] countly1837 comital1859 1837 T. Keightley Secret Societies Middle Ages 347 Each free-schöppe who was admitted made him a present, ‘to repair’, as the laws express it, ‘his countly hat’. 1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. 187 No countly house in Germany has..produced such good..rulers. 1918 W. S. Davis et al. Roots of War ix. 189 The rights of primogeniture were not as strict in Prussia as in England, and all the sons of a nobleman wore the ‘von’..or the countly or baronial title. 2009 W. Stein & J. E. Browning in J. E. Browning & C. J. Picart Draculas, Vampires, & Other Undead Forms xvi. 291 Princely, rather than countly status. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1837 |
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