NOUN
- the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess
- the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess
How To Use viscounty In A Sentence
- Knowl, so called in this county, but he had many other places, was of a very ancient lineage, who had refused a baronetage often, and it was said even a viscounty, being of a proud and defiant spirit, and thinking themselves higher in station and purer of blood than two-thirds of the nobility into whose ranks it was said, they had been invited to enter. Uncle Silas
- And one year later Ramon Berenguer strengthened his ties to Guillem Ramon by confirming his guardianship of the heir to the viscounty of Bas.
- My duty is to the people of my viscounty, to guide them in peace and defend them in war.
- However, much of the western lands of the viscounty were occupied.
