˜yÐÄvlog

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viscounty

[ vahy-koun-tee ]

noun

plural viscounties.
  1. History/Historical. the jurisdiction of a viscount or the territory under his authority.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of viscounty1

First recorded in 1580–90; viscount + -y 3
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Example Sentences

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Since this date the viscounty has been held by the Devereux family, and the holder ranks as the premier viscount of England.

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The duke of Leeds derives the title of one of his viscounties from Dunblane.

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Argentan was a viscounty from the 11th century onwards; it was often taken and pillaged.

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For the Courtenays, who had without protest accepted a baronetcy and a viscounty, their earldom was dead.

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The viscounty of Léon fell by alliance, in the fourteenth century, to the house of Rohan, in whose favour is was raised in the sixteenth to a principality.

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