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Sovereign   /sˈɑvrən/   Listen
adjective
Sovereign  adj.  
1.
Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
2.
Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
3.
Princely; royal. "Most sovereign name." "At Babylon was his sovereign see."
4.
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. "We acknowledge him (God) our sovereign good."
5.
Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy. "Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men."
Sovereign state, a state which administers its own government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power.


noun
Sovereign  n.  
1.
The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor. "No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation."
2.
A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.
3.
(Zool.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
Synonyms: King; prince; monarch; potentate; emperor.





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... very imperfectly performed, was prompted mostly by curiosity, there arose soon a passional hankering for repetition. In short, appetence for fellatio grew slowly from the night of that mawkish fiasco and waxed eventually into a sovereign want. ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... you, and your houses, avow us, Angus, Duke of Wardshaven, to be your sovereign prince, and pledge fealty to us and to our legitimate ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... coroner's jury and confess it? And didn't they find a verdict of 'Came to 'is death by a wholesome Christian sentiment workin' in the Caucasian breast'? An' didn't the church at the Hill turn W'isky down for it? And didn't the sovereign people elect him Justice of the Peace to get even on the gospelers? I don't know where you ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce
... and replaced by the Provisional Council of the Republic having 30 members appointed by President DEBY on 8 March 1991; this, in turn, was replaced by a 57-member Higher Transitional Council (Conseil Superieur de Transition) elected by a specially convened Sovereign National Conference ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... disruptive movement is a spirit opposed to civilization, since it runs in precisely the opposite direction; as, instead of tending to unity, to accord, to a large organization with individual freedom, it tends to disunity, separation, the splitting up of society into many independent sovereign states, or fractions of states, certain, absolutely certain to clash and war with each other, especially with slavery as their woof and warp; and thus bring back the reign of barbarism, and the ultimate ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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