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What is a colonelcy?

What is a colonelcy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) The rank or office of a colonel.
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Disappointed, he settled for a colonelcy in the Illinois militia.
As to the colonelcy of the militia, the lord-lieutenant has my resignation.
He graduated to the Colonelcy while in the service, and was brevetted as Brigadier General on his return home.
On returning he was gazetted to the colonelcy of the 5th Dragoons.
This colonelcy was an honorary title which he held by custom rather than by law.
He had, in the meantime, been promoted to the colonelcy of his regiment.

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