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chieftaincy

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˈtʃiːftənsi/Part of speech nounSorted accefhiintyStarts with CEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the position of chieftain

Word origin

From chieftain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of captaincy.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.
  • 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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