viceroyalty
noun
the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
viceroyalties
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pluralof viceroyalty.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In both these viceroyalties, the basis of Spanish economic activity had evolved from the payment of tribute to the enforcement of systematic forms of labor such as debt servitude.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Now, however, local governments within each of the viceroyalties were in the hands of governors, or intendants.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Essentially the same racially and spiritually coded messages are sent by works made a century apart in Spain’s two viceroyalties, north and south.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
It was not until 1740 that Philip V determined the boundary between his viceroyalties of Santa Fe and of Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
An armed force sufficient to defend the isthmus against the whole power of the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru must be sent over five thousand miles of ocean.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
