margravate

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From margrave +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

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margravate (plural margravates)

  1. The status or rank of a margrave.
  2. A territory governed by a margrave or margravine. [from 18th c.]
    Synonyms: marquisate, mark, march
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 174:
      From 1032 Provence had been a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire in the imperial Kingdom of Burgundy.

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