Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of an alderman; aldermanate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of an alderman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office or position of an
alderman .
Etymologies
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alderman + -cy
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Examples
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Another alderman, Nicholas Exton, of Queenhithe Ward, had recently been removed from his aldermancy for opprobrious words used to
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First, not all words ending in - mancy are names of divination systems; aldermancy and psychomancy are good examples.
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Philipot, his rival, either resigned or was deprived of his aldermancy. (
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Judgment was, therefore, pronounced in his absence and he was deprived of his aldermancy. (
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