Thaneship

[f. THANE¹ + -SHIP: cf. OE. þeʓnscipe.] The office or position of a thane: esp. in the Sc. sense. (See also THEGNSHIP.)

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1766. Steevens, Note Shaks., Macb. I. iii. 48. The thaneship of Glamis was the ancient inheritance of Macbeth’s family.

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1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), I. App. 371. These lands ceasing to support an earthly thaneship or service.

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1865. Kingsley, Herew., xv. He shall have … a thaneship in East Anglia.

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1896. Manly, Notes on Macbeth, 101. Since Macbeth’s accession to the thaneship of Cawdor.

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