sovranty
Alternative form of sovereignty.
Noun
- Alternative form of sovereignty.
- All the other kings, whose heads were full with their newly acquired sovranties, viz., Antiochus in Asia and Ptolemy II. in Egypt, joined with Keraunos in buying off the dangerous Pyrrhus, by bribes of men, money, and...
- Oh fie, Earth; shame, infernal sovranties! - 1938, George Derwent Thomson, The Oresteia of Aeschlyus - Volume 2, page 235:
- Others more truly explain it of Hesiod, who lived in Kyme, a city of Asia, and, like the Sibyl, wrote the succession of the reigns of the gods and said that there were diverse heavenly sovranties; first came that of...