Definition of "viscountcy" []

• The rank, title, or dignity of a viscount. Also called viscounty. (noun)

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• "Closely after royalty, I believe, and far, far above the heir to a viscountcy."
• "His viscountcy should be up there among all those letters, no?"
• "In 1895, Viscount Garnet Wolseley finally displaced the “great German sausage” the duke of Cambridge as commander-in-chief of the British army; on his death in 1913, his daughter Frances inherited his viscountcy."