governor general
noun
governor-generalship
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a word derived from
governor general.
Example Sentences
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Ghulam Mohammad succeeded to the governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951.
From Time Magazine Archive
To give further assurance that Formosans were no longer to be treated like stepchildren, Nanking abolished the governor-generalship outright.
From Time Magazine Archive
They accused him of a desire to assume the governor-generalship himself, to the exclusion of the Archduke— an insinuation which the states of Holland took occasion formally to denounce as a calumny.
From The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III by John Lothrop Motley
The acquittal of Hastings in April 1795 disappointed Francis of the governor-generalship, and in 1798 he had to submit to the additional mortification of a defeat in the general election.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
His ideas have in part been criticized in relation to Lord Sydenham's governor-generalship: in a sense, Sydenham was simply the Russell system incarnate.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
