Meaning of unshired | Babel Free

Definitions

Not shired, not constituted into counties; (by extension) ungoverned.

Ireland, UK, not-comparable

Examples

“The young giant, Hugh Maguire, may have⟳ been to the Castle to complain⟳ of Miler’s hounds, for he had already written a complaint of such doings on the part of that mighty southern pluralist, who went about in armour like⟳ a man of war, and had his life-guard like⟳ the chief of an unshired country.”

“Connacht, and Ulster apart from the two ancient counties, were still unshired, still outside the normal action of the Dublin administration.”

“The last⟳ years of Rufus’s reign were critical in the assertion of Anglo-Norman, and specifically royal, control⟳ over the unshired area of what we know⟳ as England north of the Ribble in the west and the Tees in the east.”

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