viscountcy

IPA: vˈɪskaʊnsi

noun

  • The rank or jurisdiction of a viscount.
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Examples of "viscountcy" in Sentences

  • A lover who had, unexpectedly, inherited a viscountcy.
  • His viscountcy should be up there among all those letters, no?
  • Closely after royalty, I believe, and far, far above the heir to a viscountcy.
  • He hoped the building might turn him an earl but, not being a gentleman, had to be satisfied with a viscountcy.
  • In 1895, Viscount Garnet Wolseley finally displaced the “great German sausage” the duke of Cambridge as commander-in-chief of the British army; on his death in 1913, his daughter Frances inherited his viscountcy.

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