viscounty

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English

Etymology

From Middle English viscountie, from Middle French viscounté;[1] equivalent to viscount +‎ -y.[2]

Noun

viscounty (plural viscounties)

  1. The territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official
  2. An estate held (as fief or nominally) with the title of viscount
    • 1826, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, page 262:
      His grace made a surrender to the crown, in 1706, of the titles conferred upon his father, and obtained a new grant of those honors, dated 17th of June, 1706, extending the remaindership to his heirs male or female, descended from William, first Earl of Queensberry, leaving the marquesate and earldom of Queensberry, with the viscounty of Drumlanrig, and barony of Douglas, of Hawick and Tibbers, untouched, and to descend according to the original patents of creation.

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  1. ^ “viscǒuntīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “viscounty, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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