How to Use viscount in a Sentence

viscount

noun
  • Those who read and love the book series know that the viscount and viscountess have three kids.
    Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Those standing are an array of earls, viscounts and even a duke.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • The feeding, for instance, takes place in a French chateau ruled by a viscount for hundreds of years.
    James Joiner, Esquire, 3 Jan. 2014
  • Her father's a viscount and her mother was a French opera dancer.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The Queen can choose from five titles for a man -- duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron -- and for a woman -- duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness.
    Angela Dewan, CNN, 19 May 2018
  • It was commissioned by Tomás Maria Bessone, a wealthy Lisbon entrepreneur who was made a viscount in 1870.
    J. S. Marcus, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • Baronet is a rank in the British aristocracy, albeit below dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2018
  • Bailey will be returning in Bridgerton season 3, reprising his role as the viscount.
    Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
  • This season observes the mating rites of Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), the eldest Bridgerton sibling and a viscount.
    New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • How does the sequel explore how Enola and the viscount each subvert traditional gender roles?
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Much of the plot in season two revolved around Jonathan Bailey’s character, Anthony Bridgerton, coming into his role as viscount and head of the household.
    Alexis Gaskin, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The British hereditary title is directly below baron, with viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes above it.
    Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 26 June 2018
  • As a baronet descended, Brooksbank comes from the only class of British nobility not part of the peerage, the ranks of which consist (in descending order of precedence) of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
    Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Except that his equally coldhearted sister now threatens to take custody of her two beloved children, claiming that a single woman is no fit guardian for a young viscount.
    Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Oliver Lyttelton was a viscount, a businessman, a minister in Churchill’s cabinet, etc.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2022

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