viscountcy
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of viscountcy
Example Sentences
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He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unresigned to his fate, Tony Benn mailed his viscountcy patent back to the Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Custom entitles every retiring Speaker to receive a viscountcy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A reluctant nobleman who tried to renounce his viscountcy when he fell heir to it in 1950, peppery Lord Hailsham was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of Suez.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Gough now returned to England, was raised to a viscountcy, and for the third time received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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