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.

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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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• viceroyalties
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of viceroyalty

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

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Example Sentences

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viceroyalty viceroyalties

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

With its capital at Mexico City, the former Tenochtitlán, the viceroyalty of New Spain included all Spanish territory north of Panama.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 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

At the close of this year Salvatierra was removed to the viceroyalty of Peru.

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

You shall be brought in touch with something greater than two viceroyalties.

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

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