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US
/ˈvaɪsɹɔɪ/
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[ UK /vˈaɪsɹɔɪ/ ]
[ UK /vˈaɪsɹɔɪ/ ]
NOUN
- showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller
- governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign
How To Use viceroy In A Sentence
- Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous drone, and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
- The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
- At a time when an upmarket townhouse cost 5,000 florins, a single Viceroy, white striped with purple, changed hands for 3,500 florins.
- We negotiated with Mir Jaffier for the viceroyal throne of his master. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
- In the 16th Century, Raja Wadiyar defeated the viceroy of the Vijayanagar empire, wrested the famed golden throne from him and established the sovereignty of the Mysore kings with Srirangapatna as the capital.
- He chooseth of them whomso He please to make him His viceroy and viceregent over The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- At length this cry became a clamor that shook even the old viceroyal palace in Mexico; while in San Antonio it gave a certain pitch to all conversation, and made men wear their cloaks, and set their beavers, and display their arms, with that demonstrative air of independence they called los Americano. Remember the Alamo
- Spain quickly established the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, claimed all native gold and silver mines, and forced Indians to work them.
- Despite its modest size and the irregular temporal, spatial, and ethnic distribution of the cases, the sample represents more than 70% of spousal murders that occurred in the viceroyalty at the time.
- Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.