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viscountship

viscountship noun: the role or status of viscount.

Noun

viscountship (plural viscountships)

  1. The role or status of viscount.
    • Louis persisted in struggling for the preponderance of the crown against the great vassals; succeeded in taming Peter Mauclerc, the turbulent Count of Brittany; wrung from Theobald IV., Count of Champagne, the rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres, Blois, and Sancerre, and the...1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times
    • HARDINGE, HENRY, VISCOUNT, a distinguished soldier and Governor-General of India […] was appointed Governor-General of India, and later distinguished himself under Gough in the first Sikh War; a viscountship and pension followed in 1845[…]1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

Forms of viscountship

pluralviscountships

Origin of viscountship

From viscount + -ship.

Questions about viscountship

What does viscountship mean?
Viscountship means the role or status of viscount.
What part of speech is viscountship?
Viscountship is a noun.
What is the plural of viscountship?
The plural of viscountship is viscountships.

Words near viscountship in the dictionary

  1. viscountcy
  2. viscountess
  3. viscountesses
  4. viscounties
  5. viscounts
  6. viscountship
  7. viscountships
  8. viscounty
  9. viscous
  10. viscous damper
  11. viscous dampers

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