lieutenancy
Americannoun
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lieutenancies
plural
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the office, authority, incumbency, or jurisdiction of a lieutenant.
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lieutenants collectively.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lieutenancy
First recorded in 1400–50, lieutenancy is from the late Middle English word lieutenauncie. See lieutenant, -ancy
Example Sentences
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His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army.
From Time Magazine Archive
He got his 2nd lieutenancy in May 1917 and was sent to Guam.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained a senior lieutenancy at 21.
From Time Magazine Archive
On second thought, he decided to become a diplomat; and, after having risen to the heights of a first lieutenancy, he left the Army shortly before breaking into the third decade of his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
He received a lieutenancy before the company entered its first engagement even.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
There they won distinction and lieutenancies in the Belgian service, the latter bestowed upon them by King Albert himself.
From The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The professor relied upon the school-children for chorus material, and upon the Madigans to fill those lieutenancies without which the spectacular features of his production must be a failure—this last as a matter of course.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
For gallantry on the field of action Sergeants Dame, Ferguson, Tiffany, Greenwald, and, later on, McIlhenny, were promoted to second lieutenancies, as Sergeant Hayes had already been.
From The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
It will shock men in future days that great peers or rich commoners should have bargained for ribbons and lieutenancies and titles.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
Through gallant service Frank and Jack had won their lieutenancies.
From The Boy Allies at Jutland by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
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