viceroy
noun
a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign.
viceroyship
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a word derived from
viceroy.
Example Sentences
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The winning of independence was the cause of the sad dismemberment of the viceroyship of the River Plate and the statesmen of the period could not have prevented it.
From The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Ernesto Quesada
The Emperor Taoukwang rewarded him with the important viceroyship of the Two Kiang, the seat of which administration is at Nankin.
From China by Demetrius Charles Boulger
The viceroyship is the highest appointive office in the world.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield
It is suspected that Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, president of the Council of State, under the short viceroyship of Elliot, influenced, for his own ends or from jealousy, the English in Corsica against Paoli.
From Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads by C. B. Black
Better for him had he never insisted upon viceroyship!
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
