[f. SQUIRE sb. + -DOM. Cf. ESQUIREDOM.]

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  1.  The dignity, position or status of a squire.

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1650.  B., Discolliminium, 34. The utmost title we must now expect, is a Gentleman; it may be if we straine hard, we may hap to vent a few Squiredomes.

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1838.  Lytton, Alice, IV. x. I suppose you have been enjoying the sweet business of a squiredom.

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1842.  FitzGerald, Lett. (1889), I. 88. I always direct to you as ‘Mr. Barton’ because I know not if Quakers ought to endure Squiredom.

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1897.  Ld. H. Tennyson, Mem. Tennyson, I. v. 138. His son Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt pressed to be installed in the squiredom.

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  2.  The body of squires; squires collectively.

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1842.  Blackw. Mag., LI. 147. Groves, pheasantries, pineries, and the other fine things of modern squiredom. Ibid. (1847), LXI. 424. He never hunted … with the squiredom of the country.

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1874.  Lisle Carr, Jud. Gwynne, I. i. 17. That tall … man … was an indubitable stranger, far removed from the ranks of ordinary squiredom.

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