Definition of "sergeancy" []

• The rank or office of a sergeant; sergeantship. (noun)

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• "Dumas, père, was the son of General Dumas, another extraordinary figure who rose from a sergeancy to the post of general-inchief in the armies of France in twenty-two months."
• "Chuck's last letter had contained the news of his sergeancy."
• "At first Jimmy thought they were the perpetrators of the deed, but almost immediately he recognized one of them as O'Donnell, the erstwhile traffic officer who had been promoted to a detective sergeancy since"