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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