sovrantyn.
/ˈsɒvrənti/ Chiefly poetic.
Sovereignty.
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sovereigntyc1374
thronea1382
chiefnessc1420
superiority1449
suzeraintyc1470
sovereignness1532
supremity1536
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autocracy1659
paramountcy1667
sovranty1667
paramountship1735
sovereignship1817
eminent domain1850
overmastery1901
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 446 I should ill become this Throne..And this Imperial Sov'ranty . View more context for this quotation
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 119 Bitter grief Doth hold the other half in sovranty.
1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám xii. 3 ‘How sweet is mortal Sovranty!’—think some.
1894 Mahaffy in 19th Cent. May 856 A priestly despotism, a condottiere sovranty.
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