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
Merit, or good fortune, are needed to acquire ecclesiastical princedoms, but not to maintain them, for they are upheld by the authority of religion.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The spot whereon he stood was holy ground, and above this piteous sleeper heavenly dominations, princedoms, powers, hung in watch.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
When Tennyson says that King Arthur "drew all the petty princedoms under him," and "made a realm and ruled," his grave Royalism is quite modern.
From A Miscellany of Men by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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