empery
Americannoun
noun
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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 ( see emperor) + -ium -ium
Example Sentences
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Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not only to this captain courtesy Shall Charles display, still liberal of his store; But to all those who for the empery In his emprizes have not spared their gore.
From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart
First Juno promises wealth and empery, and presents a tree hung as with fruit with crowns and diadems, all which shall be the meed of the partial judge.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
To her has been given empery of the land, and hand in hand with Darkness will she return.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction 35 which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
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