Definition of sovereign

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Sovereign (n.) The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor..

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Liege :: Liege (a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord..
Padishah :: Padishah (n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia..
Disenthrone :: Disenthrone (v. t.) To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
Counselor :: Counselor (n.) A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor..
Empire :: Empire (n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
Amnesty :: Amnesty (v.) An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection..
Audience :: Audience (a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business..
Knight :: Knight (n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John..
Sovereign :: Sovereign (a.) Princely; royal.
Sovereign :: Sovereign (a.) Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion..
Corvee :: Corvee (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign..
Seigniorage :: Seigniorage (n.) Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it..
Dread :: Dread (a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal..
Federate :: Federate (a.) United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations..
Envoy :: 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..
Sovereign :: Sovereign (a.) Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince..
Emperor :: Emperor (n.) The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia..
Bezant :: Bezant (n.) A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants..
War :: War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..
Magistery :: Magistery (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
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