empery

American  

[em-puh-ree] / ˈɛm pə ri /

noun

plural

emperies

1. absolute dominion; sovereignty.

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empery British  

/ ˈɛmpərɪ /

noun

1. archaic dominion or power; empire

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Etymology

Origin of empery

1250–1300; Middle English emperie < Anglo-French < Latin imperium mastery, sovereignty, empire, equivalent to imper ( āre ) to rule ( emperor ) + -ium -ium

Example Sentences

Whatever of true life there was in thee Leaps in our age's veins; Wield still thy bent and wrinkled empery, And shake thine idle chains;— To thee thy dross is clinging, For us thy martyrs die, thy prophets see, Thy poets still are singing.

From Project Gutenberg

Far to the west they trailed their watery burdens to the hills: she queened above them—queenly serene, aloof in the unbounded vault that all her empery of stars about her ruled and divided subject to her rule.

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Like every verse writer of his time Oscar Wilde had felt the wondrous influence of Rossetti, and no finer tribute to the painter could be written than the lines— "All the World for him A gorgeous coloured vestiture must wear, And Sorrow take a purple diadem, Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be Even in Anguish beautiful; such is the empery which Painters held."

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So also is there a peculiar happiness in the use of "empery."

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Here Cretan Rhadamanthus in unblest empery reigneth, Secret crime to punish,—full surely he-wringeth avowal Even of all that on earth, by vain impunity harden'd, Men sinning have put away from thought tillvimpenitent death.

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