[f. prec. + -CY.] The title, dignity or rank of a viscount.
1868. Daily News, 6 July. He exchanges a barony in the peerage of Ireland … for a viscountcy, the fourth order in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
1884. L’pool Mercury, 3 March, 5/1. Her Majesty has conferred the dignity of a viscountcy upon Sir Henry B. W. Brand.
1887. [C. Mackay], Twin Soul, I. xvi. 169. But neither Baronetcy nor Viscountcy rewarded his zeal.
