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viscounty|ˈvaɪkaʊntɪ|
Also 6–7 vicountie, 8 -ty.
[f. viscount + -y. Cf. OF. vis-, viconte(i, etc., F. vicomté, It. viscontado, Sp. viz-, Pg. viscondado, and med.L. vicecomitatus.]
†1. A viscount. Obs.—1
1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 131/2 From thense by iourneies he marched and went to Corke, being met in the waie by the vicounties of Roch and Barrie, and by sir Corman Mac Teege.
2. Hist. The office or jurisdiction of, the territory under the authority of, a viscount.
1611Cotgr., Vice-conte, a vicountie, a vicountship. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Viscounty, the Territory of a Viscount; a sort of Lordship, or Jurisdiction in France; as The Viscounty of Turenne is very considerable. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, France IV. 286 Caen has a provostship, a presidial, a vicounty, an office of the finances of the admiralty, and other royal tribunals. 1792A. Young Trav. France 6 Mons. Colmar, a Jew, bought the seignory and estate, including the viscounty of Amiens, of the Duke of Chaulnes. 1859Jephson Brittany xviii. 288 The Viscounty of Dinan..became..the heritage of a young lady. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 252 William was now at a point in Neal's own viscounty, at no great distance from his own castle. 1898S. Evans Holy Graal 46 Five brothers shared among them the viscounty of that city [Marseilles].
3. = viscountcy.
1859Lever Dav. Dunn lxxii, ‘But the title?’ ‘The Viscounty goes with the English property.’ 1874Dixon Two Queens xviii. vii. III. 353 About the time when he received the viscounty of Rochford. 1905Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 10/2 His Majesty has..been pleased to confer the dignity of a Viscounty upon Lord Iveagh, K.T. |