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† ˈsovereignness Obs. [f. sovereign a.] The state or condition of being sovereign.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ii. (Skeat) I. 85 But soverainnesse ayenward shulde thinke in this wyse: ‘I am servaunt of these creatures to me delivered’. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 190 The body is the couer, and in it The minds internall soueraignnesse doth sit As a great Princesse. a1661Fuller Worthies, Warwicksh. iii. (1662) 115, I confess its far short in Sovereigness against Serpents of the Italian Ash. |