princedoms
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The Emirates was just a cluster of small princedoms along the eastern shores of the Arabian Peninsula when oil was discovered there in the 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
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 ministers of the Italian princedoms could hardly keep their virtuous indignation within bounds.
From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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
Eastertide usually found her at Knobaltheim, an upland township in one of those small princedoms that make inconspicuous freckles on the map of Central Europe.
From The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
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