squirehood

English

Etymology

From squire +‎ -hood.

Noun

squirehood (usually uncountable, plural squirehoods)

1. The rank or state of a squire; squireship.
   • November 18, 1721, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to the King at Arms

     I am not yet qualified to keep a greyhound. If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity, as well as myself, who must all be unsquired, because a greyhound will not be allowed to keep us company

References

• “squirehood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.