Terms vs Chieftaincy - What's the difference?
terms | chieftaincy |
The position or period of rule of a chief.
* 1969 , Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather , Heinemann 1995, pp. 40-41:
*1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 22:
*:The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.
The area or population ruled by a chief.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 2, author=David W. Dunlap, title=Broadway Traffic Cure Elusive Since the 1800s, work=New York Times
, passage=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.}}
As nouns the difference between terms and chieftaincy
is that terms is while chieftaincy is the position or period of rule of a chief.chieftaincy
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Noun
(chieftaincies)- 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.
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