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Sovereign
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- 1 Exercising power of rule.
"sovereign nation"
- 2 Exceptional in quality.
"Her voice was her sovereign talent."
- 3 Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.). archaic
"The ſoueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine She pownded ſmall, and did in peeces bruze, And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, Into his wound the iuyce thereof did ſcruze […]"
- 4 Having supreme, ultimate power.
"Gentlemen, may I introduce Her Royal Highness, the Sovereign and Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Elizabeth of Vicron."
- 5 Princely; royal.
"You pity not the state, nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name."
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- 6 Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
"We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good."
- 1 greatest in status or authority or power wordnet
- 2 (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces wordnet
- 1 A surname from German.
- 1 A monarch; the ruler of a country.
"The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt."
- 2 The title of a monarch.
"To the security of the Protestant interests—to the security of the Protestant Church—it is not only our duty, as Members of the British Parliament, to pay particular attention, but, it is also the particular duty of the Sovereign himself."
- 3 a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right wordnet
- 4 One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- 5 God, the supreme being who has power over all creation.
"Alas! and did my Saviour bleed? / And did my Sovereign dye?"
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- 6 One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.; Ellipsis of sovereign citizen. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"A loose network of perhaps tens of thousands of far-right antigovernment extremists, sovereigns share certain conspiratorial beliefs and, sometimes, a desire to profit off a government whose legitimacy they deny."
- 7 A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- 8 A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- 9 A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- 10 Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
- 11 A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring. UK, slang
"No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’."
- 1 To rule over as a sovereign. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *superānus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. Doublet of souverain. See also suzerain, foreign.
From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *superānus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. Doublet of souverain. See also suzerain, foreign.
From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *superānus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. Doublet of souverain. See also suzerain, foreign.
Americanized form of an unidentified German surname.
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