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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Now Carteret was going abroad, his adjutancy over.
From The Oyster by Peer
At Mount Vernon George must have heard much of fighting as a lad, and when the ill health of Lawrence compelled resignation of command of the district militia, the younger brother succeeded to the adjutancy.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
No, I did not think of applying for the post myself; a twelve months' adjutancy to a dyspeptic Colonel had long cured me of the desire to bottle-wash for anyone again, however lavish the remuneration.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
A few months after his marriage he accepted an adjutancy in the Northumberland Yeomanry.
From Sir John French An Authentic Biography by Cecil Chisholm
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
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