Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rank or dignity of a viscount.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The role or status of
viscount .
Etymologies
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viscount + -ship
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Examples
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Count of Champagne, the rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres, Blois, and Sancerre, and the viscountship of
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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Marguerite de Lorraine, the queen's sister, and raising for him the viscountship of Joyeuse to a duchy-peerage, giving him rank, too, after the princes of the blood and before the dukes of old creation.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830
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