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Archducal vs Archduchy - What's the difference?

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Archducal is a related term of archduchy.


As an adjective archducal

is pertaining to an archduke or archduchess.

As a noun archduchy is

the territority (principality) of an archduke.

archducal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to an archduke or archduchess.
  • *2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 369:
  • *:The archducal couple were strikingly unconcerned about their own safety.

    • archduchy

    English

    Noun

    (archduchies)
  • The territority (principality) of an archduke
  • The archduchies''' Austria and Brabant (as well as its rival Gelre) claimed this rare, primordial vassalitic rank as the successors to the former Carolingian kingdom and first ' archduchy Lotharingia (the name later became Lorraine), which had been divided in an Upper - and a Lower dukedom within the Holy Roman Empire

    • Related terms

    * archducal * archdukedom

    See also

    * grand duchy