[f. COUNT sb.2 + -SHIP.] a. The office or dignity of a count (also used as a title). b. The domain or jurisdiction of a count.

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1703.  Farquhar, Inconstant, III. i. Where’s that bombast look … your countship wore just now?

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1831.  Carlyle, Early German Lit., Misc. Ess. (1888), III. 199. For all which, Anton and his kindred had countships and princeships in abundance.

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1861.  Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 336. The countships of Northumberland and Huntingdon, which had once belonged to his wife’s father, Waltheof.

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., VI. 416. How his Countship sulks!

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