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viceroyalty
[ad. F. vice-royauté: see vice- and royalty. Stressed either on the first or second syllable.]
1. The office, rank, or authority of a viceroy.
1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3883/1 The Ambassador is not contented.., having entertained great hopes of being advanced to the Viceroyalty of Naples. 1749Smollett Gil Blas viii. ii, Here I saw commanders and knights of Calatrava and St. Iago, solliciting for governments and viceroyalties. 1800Hist. Ind. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 29/2 Pedro Malcarenhas, on whom the viceroyalty devolved on the decease of Meneses. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 156 Sunderland..offered to procure for Tyrconnel supreme military command, enormous appointments, anything but the vice-royalty. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. vi. 475 This fact, coupled with Thurkill's similar viceroyalty in Denmark, shows that Cnut [etc.].
b. In quasi-concrete use: A viceroy or viceregal household.
1842S. Lover Handy Andy ix, Fancy might suggest that the house rejoiced, as it were, in its honoured position,..because it was under the nose of viceroyalty. 1909Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 4/2 This property..was bought by the Government in 1864 as a dwelling for Viceroyalty.
2. A province or dependency commonly administered by a viceroy.
1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5323/2 The..Ship..which is to carry the Prince to his Viceroyalty of Peru. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. vii. (1778) II. 332 Costa Rica and Veragua..belong to the vice-royalty of New Spain. 1816Tuckey Narr. Exped. R. Zaire iv. (1818) 159 The opposite sides of the river form two vice royalties. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 37 The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland shall be entitled to receive from the forts and batteries within His Vice-Royalty a Royal Salute. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. lvi. 441 The seeds of rebellion were already [in 1782] sown in the vice-royalties of Buenos Ayres and Peru.
3. The period during which a particular viceroy holds office.
1849H. Martineau Hist. Peace v. ii. (1877) III. 207 Ireland had never been so well governed as during the vice⁓royalty of Lord Mulgrave. 1865Maffei Brigand Life II. 21 During the vice-royalty of the Count of Castrillo. 1883B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence xxviii. II. 534 There had been a deficit in more than one year of his Viceroyalty. |