Which of the following is one correct meaning of the anglo-saxon suffix -some?

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noun

a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.

(in Anglo-Saxon England) a governor of one of the great divisions of England, including East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex.

noun

a male given name: from the old English word meaning “noble.”

Words related to earl

aristocrat, blue blood, emperor, patrician, baron, bishop, captain, commandant, commander, count, dad, don, duke, governor, king, leader, liege, magnate, marquis, monarch

How to use earl in a sentence

• She got to know the other regulars — the guys who served hot meals at Earl’s First Amendment Grill, the girls who pulled up with coolers full of water and dry clothes when it rained.

• Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever.

• According to the band, Earl set the tempo, starting the songs with a simple four count, but in Bad Brains nobody leads, nobody chases, nobody hurries ahead, nobody lags behind.

• Earl also said Flavortown Kitchen would help his own restaurants, which have been suffering during the pandemic just like the mom-and-pops.

• Planet Hollywood — which has survived two bankruptcies, high-profile lawsuits and chicken tenders coated in Cap’n Crunch — remains part of Earl Enterprises, the senior Earl’s company, which has gone on a buying spree of late.

• Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

• This is admittedly a loaded question, but do you feel James Earl Ray really killed Martin Luther King Jr.?

• The earl was killed in battle and Marshal captured, but he would later be ransomed by the queen herself.

• William appears to have organized acquiescence by English lords for John, and was duly awarded when he was made Earl of Pembroke.

• At no time during the shoot was Viscount Severn directly in front of the Earl of Wessex.

• The old earl's property, the source of his wealth, as from his title the reader will have shrewdly guessed, was in collieries.

• With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.

• He saw with evident pleasure the outward and visible signs of the old earl's immense wealth.

• Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.

• On joining the earl, father and son met as if they had parted only the previous day.

noun

(in the British Isles) a nobleman ranking below a marquess and above a viscountFemale equivalent: countess

(in Anglo-Saxon England) a royal governor of any of the large divisions of the kingdom, such as Wessex