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viceroyalty

American  
[vahys-roi-uhl-tee, vahys-roi-] / vaɪsˈrɔɪ əl ti, ˈvaɪsˌrɔɪ- /

noun

  • viceroyalties
    plural
  1. the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.

  2. a country or province ruled by a viceroy.


viceroyalty British  
/ ˌvaɪsˈrɔɪəltɪ /

noun

  1. the office, authority, or dignity of a viceroy

  2. the domain governed by a viceroy

  3. the term of office of a viceroy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of viceroyalty

1695–1705; vice- + royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté

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Casta paintings originate from the Spanish American viceroyalty of Mexico in the 18th Century.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2023

Even Mexico via the Spanish viceroyalty in Acapulco.

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2018

He was born in the once absurdly rich silver-mining hill town of Guanajuato, scene of some of the most horrific abuses of the Spanish viceroyalty after the European conquest.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2016

The seat of Mexican government since the Spanish viceroyalty, Mexico City is built upon the ruins of the palace of the Aztec emperor, Montezuma.

From US News Nov. 19, 2015

Flores was thus left in possession solely of the civil administration generally, and of the military organization of the viceroyalty.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

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

America was now divided into two viceroyalties, New Spain and Peru.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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