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chieftaincy|ˈtʃiːftɪnsɪ|
[mod. f. prec. + -cy; (cf. captaincy); after infancy, lieutenancy, etc., in which the suffix, really -y, is apparently -cy.]
The rank or position of chieftain; government by a chieftain; = the earlier chieftainry.
1817Month. Rev. LXXXVIII. 203 Edward Davis having succeeded to the chieftaincy. 1835Coleridge in Fraser's Mag. XII. 494 The Greek chieftancies, had..passed into Constitutions. 1858Gladstone Homer I. 459 The chieftaincies of the Celtic tribes. |