What's the difference between clarendon and earldom?

Clarendon


Definition:

  • (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ten Question Screen (TQ) was used as the main instrument to identify disability in a two stage population-based survey of 5478 children aged 2-9 years in Clarendon, Jamaica.
  • (2) It was in this climate, watching clients go to private agencies that didn’t know anything about them, that I set up Clarendon.
  • (3) The TQ was used as the main instrument to identify disability in a 2-stage population-based survey of 5478 children 2-9 years old in Clarendon, Jamaica.
  • (4) We investigated the service needs of children attending a medical assessment as part of a two stage survey of 2 to 9-year-old children in mid and south Clarendon, Jamaica.
  • (5) Antibodies to Upolu, Johnston Atoll, Lake Clarendon, Taggert, Saumarez Reef and CSIRO 264 viruses were restricted to seabirds.
  • (6) No antigenic relationships were determined for six other viruses (Andasibe, Itupiranga, Kammavanpettai, Lake Clarendon, Matucare, and Ndelle) provisionally placed in the family Reoviridae.
  • (7) But even though she notches up straight As in exams, there was no party at her home on Clarendon Avenue in Richmond Village.
  • (8) In a population-based survey in a defined area in the parish of Clarendon, Jamaica, the prevalence of six types of childhood disabilities was sought.
  • (9) The Clarendon commission (1861) investigated the nine "great" schools and uncovered the scandal of leases being distributed between provosts and fellows.
  • (10) Many smaller communities in Clarendon County are in a similar predicament, sheriff Randy Garrett told the Associated Press.

Earldom


Definition:

  • (n.) The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.
  • (n.) The status, title, or dignity of an earl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
  • (2) He was born with, if not a silver spoon, then at least a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, being a scion on his father's side of the Kennedy earldom which used to own Culzean Castle in Scotland, and on his mother's side of a Scottish baronetcy.
  • (3) Very few boys really bothered about surviving after school because there were family firms or earldoms to take over.
  • (4) The books tell the story of the bloody battles between the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons led by King Alfred, through fictional character Uhtred, a Northumbrian boy, heir to an earldom, who is captured and raised by the invaders.
  • (5) Hugh Lowther, the Earl of Lonsdale, has put it up for sale and, with it, the title, Lord of the Manor of Threlkeld (he has an earldom anyway, of course, so he probably doesn't use that very much).
  • (6) Yet the 14th earl could hardly have made his final return as plain Lord Home of the Hirsel, a humble life peer, without reflecting that after the constitutional disturbance which had enabled him to shed his earldom, and become prime minister, the House of Lords could never be the same again.
  • (7) On October 23, 1963, Sir Alec signed an instrument of disclaimer of four titles of Scotland - the earldom of Home, the lordship of Dunglass, the lordship of Home and the lordship of Hume of Berwick, one United Kingdom peerage - the barony of Douglas and one British peerage - the barony of Hume of Berwick.

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