Also 7 vicount-. [f. VISCOUNT + -SHIP.] The dignity of a viscount; a viscountcy.
1611. [see VISCOUNTY 2].
a. 1647. Habington, Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.), I. 33. Concearninge the Devereuxes, in whom are included the Earldome of Essex and vicountshyp of Hereford.
1651. Howell, Venice, 25. Crema was a long time under the Vicountship of Milan untill the yeer 1405.
1881. Mrs. Lynn Linton, My Love, I. xii. 215. The few years of his Viscountship.
