What's the difference between margrave and marquisate?
Margrave
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.
(n.) The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solicitor Clive Margrave-Jones and Financial Planners Ltd are putting together a group of individuals who have been affected by tax rules to challenge the law that allows widows and widowers but not gay partners to inherit the other partner's property free of inheritance tax.
(2) In his unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes , there is a photograph of John Peel "compiling the running order for his programme in his room at home".
(3) Mr Margrave-Jones, of the law firm Margraves in Llandrindod Wells, has obtained a legal opinion backing the case from Hugh Tomlinson, a leading human rights QC at Matrix, the chambers Cherie Booth QC also works from.
(4) Financial Planners Ltd are working with Mr Margrave-Jones to bring potential claimants together to share the costs of what is likely to be an expensive legal process.
(5) Mr Margrave-Jones said: "We are claiming that these people who have lived together for a long time have not been given the opportunity to register their relationship for tax purposes, which is an infringement on their human rights."
Marquisate
Definition:
(n.) The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(2) She won an Olivier award for her role in as the Marquise in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and an Evening Standard gong for playing Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
(3) Though counts may cavil and marquises moan , the Spanish parliament, backed by the Spanish electorate, has now put a stop to this kind of discrimination – a policy powerfully endorsed by the king (though succession in the monarchy remains, for the moment, exempt from reform).
(4) It deals with various claims and counterclaims of princes, marquises, landgraves, bishops, emperors, dukes and electors, but the "we the peoples," of the UN charter are nowhere to be seen.
(5) But while Westphalia enjoined freedom of religion, its modern invokers want to defend the presumed rights of the modern equivalent of those landgraves, marquises, princes and counts, to massacre their own people with impunity.
(6) Gilles de la Tourette deserves credit, not only for having regrouped fragmented observations into one remarkably well described clinical entity which held over time (such as Itard's observations nos 9 and 10 in 1825; the latter is the famous Marquise of D ... seen several times by Charcot and the only one which, along with no 1, appears in Gilles de la Tourette's paper), but also for having described the course of this chronic and fluctuating disease.
(7) The Bills' third-string quarterback announces himself to the NFL by launching an exocet down the right sideline for Marquise Goodwin, who catches in stride and races away 59 yards for the score.
(8) The well-preservedness of the cadaver of the Marquise of Tai once again testifies to the creative wisdom of the labouring class of our ancestors.