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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The rank, title, or dignity of a viscount.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The rank or dignity of a viscount.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount.

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  • noun The rank or jurisdiction of a viscount.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the title of a viscount
  • noun the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess

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Examples

  • Closely after royalty, I believe, and far, far above the heir to a viscountcy.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Closely after royalty, I believe, and far, far above the heir to a viscountcy.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Closely after royalty, I believe, and far, far above the heir to a viscountcy.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • His viscountcy should be up there among all those letters, no?

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • 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.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • 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.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • 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.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • A lover who had, unexpectedly, inherited a viscountcy.

    Tutoring Lady Jane Featherstone, Charlotte 2005

  • He hoped the building might turn him an earl but, not being a gentleman, had to be satisfied with a viscountcy.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • He hoped the building might turn him an earl but, not being a gentleman, had to be satisfied with a viscountcy.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

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