How To Use peerage In A Sentence
- Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
- Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.
- They'll both end up with peerages for distinguished service to British football/fashion and people will laugh at their youthful misdemeanours.
- A life peerage is no longer a life sentence. Times, Sunday Times
- I'm not a fan of the honours system, or peerages in general because very few genuinely deserve to be lifted in status.
- But knighthood is an honour, not a peerage; he remained a member of the House of Commons until his retirement in 2001.
- I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage. The Sun
- She believes that hereditary peerages should be abolished.
- He insisted two years ago that he would not follow Labour grandees in accepting a peerage. Times, Sunday Times
- Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
