"chieftaincy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From chieftain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of captaincy.",
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          "ref": "1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, pages 40–41:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 22:",
          "text": "The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.",
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        "The position or period of rule of a chief."
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          "text": "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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          "ref": "1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, pages 40–41:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 22:",
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        "The position or period of rule of a chief."
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