lieutenancy

American  

[loo-ten-uhn-see] / luˈtɛn ən si /

noun

• lieutenancies
  plural

1. the office, authority, incumbency, or jurisdiction of a lieutenant.

2. lieutenants collectively.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lieutenancies
  plural

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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He got his 2nd lieutenancy in May 1917 and was sent to Guam.

From Time Magazine Archive

A tightlipped, light-skinned man, he left Howard University for a temporary first lieutenancy during the Spanish-American War.

From Time Magazine Archive

R.O.T.C. led him to a lieutenancy in the Army, and as part of a wartime antiaircraft unit he followed the sweep from Normandy to Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same year Sergeant Patterson refused a lieutenancy because he said he had not merited it.

From Time Magazine Archive

He received a lieutenancy before the company entered its first engagement even.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

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

Do but observe the common practice in the government of those heroic bodies, our militia and lieutenancies, the most ancient corps of soldiers, perhaps, in the universe.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by George A. Aitken

The commissioning of this large number of colored men even to lieutenancies was, without doubt, a distinct step in advance; it was an entering wedge.

From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward

What! shall I esteem as proconsuls, as governors, those who for that end only deem themselves invested with lieutenancies or great senatorial appointments, that they may gorge themselves with the provincial luxuries and wealth?

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

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