over-lordship

In the process of binding together twenty or more of the neighboring tribes in order to settle rival claims, I was given the over-lordship of the federation.

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In a way, without vexing himself with the problem, he accepted their over-lordship of the world as dual.

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It's just possible they may not still acknowledge our over-lordship.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis, C. S. 1952

With the capture of Khartoum, on the morning of the 26th of January 1885, and the abandonment of the Soudan and its population -- the Egyptian frontier being fixed by British Government order at Wady Halfa -- the over-lordship of that immense region from the

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

But the principal reason of the Transvaal contention proceeded from the project of gaining over some strong foreign ally who would see an obstacle, if not scruples, in joining common cause whilst England's claim of over-lordship remained unshaken.

Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas

It has been averred and a strong point made in the theory of repudiating suzerainty or over-lordship that Lord Kimberley had given the assurance that the right of Transvaal autonomy and independence was meant to equal that of the Orange Free State.

Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas

And finally this swift-dreaming thinker proclaims a vision which he has seen of a new world-wide interrelated republicanism founded on a recognition of the over-lordship of God ....

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917 Various

In a way, without vexing himself with the problem, he accepted their over-lordship of the world as dual.

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The over-lordship of the latter lasted for some sixty years, until about 1294, when the rule of the Ottoman Turk was inaugurated by the victories of Othman I, and the successful reigns of his three sons, Urkhan, Murad I, and Bajazet

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The power of the bishop increased in consequence, so that in the eleventh and twelfth centuries he was the sole ruler of the city and the surrounding territory, though he recognized the over-lordship of the margraves of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913