Vocabulary Word
Word: sovereignty
Definition: complete independence and self-government (of a country); supremacy of authority; power to govern
Definition: complete independence and self-government (of a country); supremacy of authority; power to govern
Sentences Containing 'sovereignty'
When Agamemnon, in Homer, offers to Achilles, for his friendship, the sovereignty of seven Greek cities, the sole advantage which he mentions as likely to be derived from it was, that the people would honour him with presents.
As long as such presents, as long as the emoluments of justice, or what may be called the fees of court, constituted, in this manner, the whole ordinary revenue which the sovereign derived from his sovereignty, it could not well be expected, it could not even decently be proposed, that he should give them up altogether.
If the trading spirit of the English East India company renders them very bad sovereigns, the spirit of sovereignty seems to have rendered them equally bad traders.
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