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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Obsolete spellings of sovereign.

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  • Whereby any one may easily collect, and gather, that this getteth his soveraign faculties better in its passage by and through the variety of minerals, included in the earth (which only afford unto it an halitious body) then those doe.

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • Is this an honest thing, is this honourable to thy parents? is this reason, that thou hast violated and broken the commandement of thy mother and soveraign mistresse: and whereas thou shouldst have vexed my enemy with loathsom love, thou hast done otherwise?

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Vertue, the soveraign Gift of inward Strength, which rules in the in-most part of it, conquering the most affrightening punishment and pain, and the strongest temptation.

    The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

  • There are few soveraign princes so abridged, but that, if they be not contented, they may envy their own fortune.

    Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

  • This councillor, without more ado, would have all who retained conceits of allegiance to their soveraign, to be absolutely cut off by the usurper's sword.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • Methodically composed for the publick good, in the 16th year of the reign of our soveraign Lord Charls the Second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • Now to cure this desperate malady (though to you, Gentlewoman, I hope the cure is need, less, being void of all such violent distempers) the best and most soveraign Receipt, is to fortifie the weakness of your Sex with strength of resolution.

    The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675

  • In the mean time, the General of all their Naval Forces, sent to their soveraign to acquaint him with their miraculous Delivery and Conquest, and with the Empress's design of making him the most powerful Monarch of all that World.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

  • And although some Dukes be soveraigns, yet I have heard that a Prince by his Title is soveraign, by reason the Title of a Prince is more a Title of Honour, then of soveraignty; for, as I said before, it belongs to all that are adopted to the Crown.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

  • To which the Empress returned this answer, That she would burn and sink all those Ships that would not pay him Tribute; and forthwith sent to all the Neighbouring Nations, who had any Traffick by Sea, desiring them to pay Tribute to the King and soveraign of that Nation where she was born; But they denied it with great scorn.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

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