principalities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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It's not like I'm engaging the devil left and right against principalities and powers all over the place.”
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2024
"Districts of the capital are not separate principalities where you can walk around in white gloves and neglect your duties," he said, adding that he would not tolerate "sabotage".
From Reuters • Jun. 2, 2023
Rather than adopting a common currency, legal system, or representative assembly, the Holy Roman Empire remained a patchwork of semiautonomous principalities.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
“There is absolutely nothing you or any of the other powers and principalities can do to stop us.”
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022
The 19th-century unification of Germany’s jealous principalities proved equally difficult.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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