What's the difference between marquess and marquisate?
Marquess
Definition:
(n.) A marquis.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is survived by his wife, the Duchess of Devonshire, his son, the Marquess of Hartington, who becomes the 12th duke, and his two daughters.
(2) Coming soon … Esio Trot (BBC1) - Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench will star in the Roald Dahl classic, co-scripted by Richard Curtis Cloud Lab (BBC2) - scientists in the world's largest airship will attempt to predict a hurricane high above the US Prey (ITV) - Life on Mars star John Simm plays a detective constable forced to go on the run to clear his name Babylon (Channel 4) - a police comedy drama from director Danny Boyle and Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong Evidence (Channel 5) - the crime series is its first homegrown drama in eight years, made by Paul Marquess of Footballers' Wives and The Bill fame The Kumars (Sky 1) - Sanjeev Bhaskar's spoof chatshow is back, seven years after it was axed by BBC1 House of Cards 2 (Netflix) - the $100m remake of the BBC drama, which received multiple Emmy nominations, now has a second series in production
(3) "The Marquess of Queensberry's son, and you know it was the Marquess of Queensberry who invented the rules of boxing.
(4) Instead, he blames every appalling tantrum from his golden boy on the boy's violent father, the Marquess of Queensberry.
(5) In Rich, Famous and Homeless the Marquess of Blandford absconded to a hotel; like Withnail, he realised he had come on holiday by mistake.
(6) The great gallery was built by Sir Richard Wallace between 1872 and 1875 as part of an extension of Hertford House, required to accommodate a collection built up largely by the fourth marquess of Hertford.
(7) Some grandees have accused the newspaper editor Pedro Ramírez of El Mundo of being behind the change, which benefited his partner, the designer Agatha Ruíz de la Prada, who contested the title of Marquess of Castell dos Rius.
(8) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
(9) He was the best heavyweight boxer there had ever been since the Marquess of Queensberry set down his rules in 1867, undeniably the best since Kid Cain KO’ed Sugar Ray Abel.
(10) "I planted that copper beech in 1980," says the Marquess of Blandford, pointing at a copper beech.
(11) A few rich men sit in the Commons, including Archie Norman, the former chairman of Asda supermarkets, and Michael Ancram, heir to the Marquess of Lothian, while the billionaire Lord Sainsbury of Turville (below) is Minister for Science.
(12) That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury.
(13) Known as Fionnloch (White Lake) in Irish, the name “Delphi” was coined by the Marquess of Sligo, a pal of Byron, who owned the land here.
(14) Helped by drawings of the hang that the house's owner, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, had found in Walpole's desk, the paintings have been put back in rooms as they were.
(15) Frank Goldsmith served as Conservative MP for Stowmarket from 1910-18, while Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, sat as Unionist MP for County Down from 1931-45.
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.