viceroyalty
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vice- + royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]viceroyalty (countable and uncountable, plural viceroyalties)
- The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom
- The place governed by a viceroy
- India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.
Translations
[edit]place governed by a viceroy
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References
[edit]- ^ “viceroyalty”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.