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n. 1 The rank or position of a count. 2 (context dated English) A territory (principality, province...) ruled/administered by a count.
Usage examples of "countship".
Or did he, as heir to his father's Countship, have a political obligation to stage it at the Vorkosigan's District capital of Hassadar?
If a horse can inherit a Countship, I don't see what's the theoretical objection to a Cetagandan.
Even if she blocks Richars, the Countship can only go to one of his sons or younger brothers.
Armsman Szabo continued to Ivan, "observing Count Pierre's, er, nervous problems, has counted the Vorrutyer Countship and District as his property anytime these last twenty years.
The prick's always been the most important qualification for a Countship anyway.
Now that the requirement of male primogeniture has been met, I claim the nearest right by blood to the Countship of the Vorrutyer's District, and in light of my late brother's expressed views, I claim Count's choice as well.
I wanted to let you know, in case there was any doubt, that your bid for the Vorrutyer Countship has my full support, and the vote of my District.
That wouldn't work if Sigur holds Countship of the Vorbretten's District by then, though.
If he wins the Countship, my open opposition almost forces him to go on to make his threat good.
As soon as Richars Vorrutyer is voted into the Countship of the Vorrutyer's District this morning, he intends to lay a murder charge in the Council of Counts against Lord Auditor Vorkosigan for the death of my cousin.
But what if Richars did win his Countship, and its concomitant right to lay criminal charges against his new peers in the Council?
Dono moistened his lips, and launched into the formal wording of his petition for the Countship of the Vorrutyer's District.
He stood by his record of ten years' faithful service in his Countship, and his grandfather's before him, and drew his colleagues' attention to his late father's military career and death in battle in the War of the Hegen Hub.
If I step down to a mere Countship, I am out of that chain of command.
If anything happened to me, you’d inherit the Countship of our district from my father.