Chieftaincy

//ˈtʃiːftənsi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The position or period of rule of a chief.

    "At first Matenge had hated his brother because he felt the chieftaincy should be his, and this hatred drove him to overreach himself until he was discovered in a plot to assassinate his brother."

  2. 2
    the position of chieftain wordnet
  3. 3
    The area or population ruled by a chief.

    "And it does not help that the lowermost part of Broadway was originally laid out as a footpath by the people of the Wickquasgeck chieftaincy, long before Europeans arrived."

Etymology

From chieftain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of captaincy.

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