Sovereignly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    To the highest degree; wholly; utterly archaic

    "They are sovereignly unjust, for all the parties are human beings with the same essential interests, and no one of them is the wholly perverse demon which another often imagines him to be."

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"They are sovereignly unjust, for all the parties are human beings with the same essential interests, and no one of them is the wholly perverse demon which another often imagines him to be."

Etymology

From Middle English sovereynly, sovereynliche, soveraynliche, equivalent to sovereign + -ly.

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