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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sovereignty.

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Examples

  • When at last he was set between the hands of the King he said to him, Allah prolong thy days and increase thy sovranty and exalt thy rank, O thou auspicious King!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “O King, weeping will avail thee naught; nor shall aught profit thee but that thou harden thy heart and strengthen thy stress and establish thy sovranty; for verily whoso leaveth the like of thee is not dead.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Whereupon Sayf al-Muluk rose and kissing the ground before the King, thanked him and answered, “O King of the Age, I accept all thou givest me and return it to thee in freest gift; for I, O King of the Age, covet not sovranty nor sultanate nor desire aught but that Allah the Most High bring me to my desire.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • French blood asserts more and more its sovranty, and now completely dominates the other elements in his art.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • He felt now the power of personal sovranty, how these children of the East awaited not Xerxes the Master, but Xerxes the

    A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

  • For it supported the dogmas of popular sovranty and social equality, and justified the principle of the right of private judgement.

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

  • Popular sovranty is opposed to orderly institutions and condemns all superior persons to dependence on the multitude of their inferiors.

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

  • 'Tis little wonder if thou find the noble-minded poor, What while the loser by main force usurps his sovranty.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • He is no king, who dies with kingship in his hand, For sovranty belongs to Him that dieth not.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • "Take this realm and rule it in lieu of me, for I desire to flee from the sin of sovranty [FN#335] to Allah the Most High and don the woollen dress and devote all my time to devotion."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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