chieftaincy
Collocations
3ADJ.
long
VERB + CHIEFTAINCY
felt
CHIEFTAINCY + NOUN
church, europeans
Definitions
noun
The position or period of rule of a chief.
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.
The area or population ruled by a chief.
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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noun — the position of chieftain
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3At 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.
WiktionaryThe two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.
WiktionaryAnd 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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