viceroyship

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English

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Etymology

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From viceroy +‎ -ship.

Noun

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viceroyship (countable and uncountable, plural viceroyships)

  1. The office or term of a viceroy.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Dargan and Sanar Two Egyptian Lords, Contending about the Sultanie, Sanar Calleth in the Turks to Help Him. Of the Danger of Mercenary Souldiers; yet How, Well Qualified, They may be Serviceable”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 89:
      Whileſt the Turks thus lorded it in Syria and the leſſer Aſia, the Saracen Caliph commanded in Egypt; under whom, two great Lords, Dargan and Sanar, fell out about the Sultanie or Vice-royſhip of that land.