Meaning of chieftaincy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The position or period of rule of a chief.
2. The area or population ruled by a chief.

Examples

“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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