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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a viceroy.

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  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, a viceroy or viceroyalty.
  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, a viceregent or viceregency.

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Examples

  • Her account mainly covers what she calls the viceregal period, also known as the colonial era, which lasted from 1521 to 1821.

    San Miguel and the War of Independence by Mamie Spiegel 2006

  • Her account mainly covers what she calls the viceregal period, also known as the colonial era, which lasted from 1521 to 1821.

    San Miguel and the War of Independence by Mamie Spiegel 2006

  • Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings.

    VII. Book I 1920

  • Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings.

    The Age of Innocence 1920

  • Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of

    The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899

  • In the viceregal period, Indians were not allowed inside the park.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • There, at the place they call La Villa, the sacred image hangs on permanent display in a large and modern basilica built in the early 1970s—the original viceregal basilica having sunk unevenly over the centuries into the soft former lake bed below.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • His viceregal powers did not impress the Americans, who might accept persuasion but would not put up with flat orders to governors and legislatures.13

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • His viceregal powers did not impress the Americans, who might accept persuasion but would not put up with flat orders to governors and legislatures.13

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The commander in chief in North America no longer had viceregal authority, and the governors took orders only from London.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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  • "Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings."

    - Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.

    September 19, 2009