adjutancy
Americannoun
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adjutancies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of adjutancy
First recorded in 1765–75; adjut(ant) + -ancy
Example Sentences
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But he did not know that soon after Truscott's resignation the colonel had tendered the adjutancy to Ray, and that impolitic youth had promptly declined.
From Marion's Faith. by Charles King
It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
However, very soon the new governor-general gave him the adjutancy of his own regiment, then at Agra, and things grew brighter.
From The Red Book of Heroes by Arthur Wallis Mills
A few months after his marriage he accepted an adjutancy in the Northumberland Yeomanry.
From Sir John French An Authentic Biography by Cecil Chisholm
I thought that when we got home I might get the adjutancy of a militia regiment, and that we might have been married.
From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Henry Rider Haggard
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