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mayoralty (n.)
late 14c.,
mairaltee
"office of a mayor" (mid-15c. as "tenure of a mayor"), from Middle French
mairalté
, from
maire
(see
mayor
) +
-alte
, as in
principalte
, reformed in English as
-alty
.