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So if your comment is about "what does the title mean", yup, no argument there. Today, it means lawyer. The article is about why. And the article explicitly s
by CarelessExpert 6y ago
So if your comment is about "what does the title mean", yup, no argument there. Today, it means lawyer.
The article is about why.
And the article explicitly states we have no idea why the term is now attached to the legal profession.
Again, all we know is: knights got rich, squires became a thing, people started using "esquire" to appear rich adjacent, then ... esquire == lawyer.
That's it. That's all the article gives us as far as the origin story goes.
But maybe you're not talking about the origin and instead just talking about contemporary use, in which case we're in violent agreement! :)