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- Sovereign - a. - Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
- Sovereign - a. - Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
- Sovereign - a. - Princely; royal.
- Sovereign - a. - Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
- Sovereign - a. - Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
- Sovereign - n. - The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
- Sovereign - n. - 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.
- Sovereign - n. - Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
- Sovereignize - v. i. - To exercise supreme authority.
- Sovereignly - adv. - In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely.
- Sovereignties - pl. - of Sovereignty
- Sovereignty - n. - The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.
- Purveyance - n. - A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished.
- Heaven - n. - The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.
- Princess - n. - A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.
- Deposition - n. - The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
- Usurpation - n. - The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.
- Embassador - n. - A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
- Domain - n. - The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
- Envoy - n. - One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
- Republic - a. - A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.
- Kingdom - n. - The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
- Disenthrone - v. t. - To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
- Throne - n. - Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.
- Ligeance - n. - The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.
- Preregnant - n. - One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor.
- Subsidy - n. - Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
- Placitum - n. - A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
- Sovereign - a. - Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
- Extraterritoriality - n. - A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation.
- Liege - a. - Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
- Viceroy - prep. - The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.
- Sovereign - a. - Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
- Cham - n. - The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
- Orangeman - n. - One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.
- See - n. - A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
- Treacle - n. - A sovereign remedy; a cure.
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- H113 אָדוֹן - 113 אָדוֹן - אָדוֹן - - ʼâdôwn - aw-done' - or (shortened) אָדֹן; from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine); lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with 'Adoni-'. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G935 βασιλεύς - 935 βασιλεύς - ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΣ - - basileús - bas-il-yooce' - probably from βάσις (through the notion of a foundation of power); a sovereign (abstractly, relatively, or figuratively):--king. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G937 βασιλικός - 937 βασιλικός - ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΌΣ - - basilikós - bas-il-ee-kos' - from βασιλεύς; regal (in relation), i.e. (literally) belonging to (or befitting) the sovereign (as land, dress, or a courtier), or (figuratively) preeminent:--king's, nobleman, royal. - Adjective - greek
- G3841 παντοκράτωρ - 3841 παντοκράτωρ - ΠΑΝΤΟΚΡΆΤΩΡ - - pantokrátōr - pan-tok-rat'-ore - from πᾶς and κράτος; the all-ruling, i.e. God (as absolute and universal sovereign):--Almighty, Omnipotent. - Noun Masculine - greek