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Esquire

[ US /ˈɛsˌkwaɪɹ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛskwa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name

How To Use Esquire In A Sentence

  • Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • The peak that bears 93 1/2 degrees I have called the Grierson after R. Grierson, Esquire, of Great Bourke Street West, Melbourne. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
  • Theoretically the number of baronets and knights can be established at different periods, but this is not the case with the third and fourth categories of gentry, esquires and gentlemen.
  • An appellate judge who has been in that position since working as a professor is as disconnected from the legal practice as anyone who cannot claim "esquire" as a title. Real diversity on the Supreme Court.
  • Is my Lord Rakewell guilty or not guilty of the wilful murder of Tobias Flynn, esquire ? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Flasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • By the mid-1520s Wyatt was one of Henry's "Esquires of the Body" – part servant, part playmate, part bodyguard – and a keen participant in the Henrician craze for chivalric games and tourneys, as well as the endless round of amorous banter and titillation which went under the guise of "courtly love". The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
  • So it could be shown in most cases that esquires holding corrodies did not by any means live constantly in their monasteries. Chaucer's Official Life
  • Don Quixote, perceiving himself free, and delivered from so many difficulties and brabbles wherewithal as well he as his esquire had been perplexed, held it high time to prosecute his commenced voyage, and bring to an end the great adventure unto which he was called and chosen. The Fourth Book. XIX. In Which Is Finished the Notable Adventure of the Troopers, and the Great Ferocity of Our Knight, Don Quixote, and How He Was Enchanted
  • Our friends at Esquire have rounded up the hottest girls of the calendar's steamiest three months, with one for each year. Hot Girls Of Summer: Esquire Picks The Women That Melt Men's Hearts (PHOTOS, POLL)
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