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  • noun Plural form of cornetcy.

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Examples

  • But I should add that the subdivision of these electoral districts into their respective constituencies will not proceed upon hard mathematical lines, but that they will be grouped together in accordance with the existing field cornetcies of which they are composed, as that will involve as little change as possible in the ideas of the rural population and in the existing boundaries.

    Liberalism and the Social Problem Winston S. Churchill 1919

  • And so on, and so on, and so on, till one would have thought they were all trying for tide-waiters 'places, or cornetcies in the heavy dragoons.

    The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847

  • And so on, and so on, and so on, till one would have thought they were all trying for tide-waiters 'places, or cornetcies in the heavy dragoons.

    The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847

  • I certainly do not think it very fair that he should bear on his shoulders all the grievances of cornetcies and lieutenancies, which

    Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos 1829

  • And so on, and so on, and so on, till one would have thought they were all trying for tide-waiters’ places, or cornetcies in the heavy dragoons.

    The Water Babies 2007

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