chieftaincy

English

From chieftain +‎ -cy.

chieftaincy (plural chieftaincies)

The position or period of rule of a chief.
- 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann 1995, pp. 40-41:
  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.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 22:
  The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.
The area or population ruled by a chief.
- 2009 March 2, David W. Dunlap, “Broadway Traffic Cure Elusive Since the 1800s”, in New York Times‎:
  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.

单词	chieftaincy
释义	chieftaincy English Etymology From chieftain +‎ -cy. Pronunciation (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃiːftənsi/ Noun chieftaincy (plural chieftaincies) The position or period of rule of a chief. 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann 1995, pp. 40-41: 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. 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 22: The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church. The area or population ruled by a chief. 2009 March 2, David W. Dunlap, “Broadway Traffic Cure Elusive Since the 1800s”, in New York Times‎: 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.
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