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Chieftaincy
//ˈtʃiːftənsi// noun
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Noun
- 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 the position of chieftain wordnet
- 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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