Viscounty Definition

vīkounttē
viscounties
noun

Viscountcy.

Webster's New World

The territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official.

Wiktionary

An estate held (as fief or nominally) with the title of viscount.

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Noun

Singular:
viscounty
Plural:
viscounties

Origin of Viscounty

  • From viscount (from Middle English viscounte, from Middle French viscomte (modern vicomte), from Old French visconte, from medieval Latin vicecomes, from vice- + comes 'companion, count') + -y

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Viscounty Sentence Examples

  • The earldom, and the viscounty of the United Kingdom, being limited to heirs male, became extinct, but the barony, being to heirs general, passed to his daughter, Sophia Charlotte (1762-1835), who married the Hon.

  • As Gaston left only daughters, the viscounty passed at his death to the family of Foix, from whom it was transmitted through the houses of Grailly and Albret to the Bourbons, and they, in the person of Henry IV., king of Navarre, made it an apanage of the crown of France.

  • When Gaston-Phoebus wished to establish a regular annual hearth-tax (fouage) in the viscounty, he convoked the deputies of the three estates in assemblies called accts.

  • Argentan was a viscounty from the 11th century onwards; it was often taken and pillaged.

  • Avallon (Aballo) was in the middle ages the seat of a viscounty dependent on the duchy of Burgundy, and on the death of Charles the Bold passed under the royal authority.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIS

Words Ending With

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Words Starting With V and Ending With Y

Starts With V & Ends With YStarts With VI & Ends With YStarts With V & Ends With TY

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With V9 Letter Words Ending With Y