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sovran
[ sov-ruhn, suhv- ]
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Derived Forms
- ˈsovranly, adverb
- ˈsovranty, noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
It displeases me to think it possible that a subject should ever become a sovran.
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Some are making love, a sovran means of killing time, whether one be born that day or twenty years ago.
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Just as the stolen potato is sovran for rheumatism, so "rue stolen thriveth the best."
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It does upset one's ideas and unsettle one's principles when sovran woman has nothing for one but bonnet-pins.
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Fairest of gems he bore with him over the beaker-of-waves, sovran strong: under shield he died.
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