Definition of "viscounty" []

• See viscountcy. (noun)

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• "Grattan and the Whigs during the greater part of his parliamentary career, but in his latter days became identified with the court party and voted for the union, for which his viscounty was a reward."
• "Knowl, so called in this county, but he had many other places, was of a very ancient lineage, who had refused a baronetage often, and it was said even a viscounty, being of a proud and defiant spirit, and thinking themselves higher in station and purer of blood than two-thirds of the nobility into whose ranks it was said, they had been invited to enter."
• "Arnaldo Guillelmi to the viscounty of Goure for as long as it took to satisfy"