noun
definition
The office or term of service of a viceroy.
definition
The place governed by a viceroy.
example
India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.
Examples of viceroyalties in a Sentence
The captaincy-general of Cuba was not originally, however, by any means so broad in powers as the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru; and by the creation in 1765 of the office of intendant - the delegate of the national treasury - his faculties were very greatly curtailed.
Other governments known as captain-generalships were cut out of the viceroyalties at different periods - Guatemala in 1527, Venezuela in 1773, Cuba in 1777 and Chile in 1778.
New Spain was one of four great viceroyalties, the other three being New Granada, Buenos Aires and Peru.