Definition of "lieutenancy" []

• The role, duty or position of being a lieutenant (noun)

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• "A great deal of Jack's data came, he admitted, from a Japanese lieutenancy named Y. Abe who visited him at his hotel room."
• "Robert Owen Roberts, lieutenancy officer, Cheshire."
• "In November, 1854, I received my promotion to a second lieutenancy in the Fourth Infantry, which was stationed in California and Oregon."