princedoms

British  

/ ˈprɪnsdəmz /

plural noun

1. (often capital) another term for principalities

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Example Sentences

Nepotism is not a new word at the Vatican; evolved from the Latin nepos for nephew, it originally described the fat handouts of princedoms and privileges to the nephews of Popes centuries ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

The birds must often have felt startled, when from the small swinging form perching on a branch, came out in childish tones the "Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers," of Milton's stately and sonorous verse.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

This is indeed one of the oldest of the princedoms of India, and has always been celebrated for its barbaric pomps and splendors, and for the wealth of its princes.

From Following the Equator, Part 5 by Twain, Mark

Hereditary states are maintained with far less difficulty than new states, but in new princedoms difficulties abound.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

They decided upon the siege of Damascus, the most important and the nearest of the Mussulman princedoms in Syria, and in the early part of June they moved thither with forces incomplete and ill united.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert