viscountcy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪkaʊn(t)si/
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Noun
viscountcy (plural viscountcies)
- The rank or jurisdiction of a viscount.
- 1849, Bernard Burke, Anecdotes of the Aristocracy and Episodes in Ancestral Story:
- the Earldom of Dudley, and Viscountcy of Dudley and Ward, expired.
References
- “viscountcy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.