principate
supreme power or office.
Origin of principate
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How to use principate in a sentence
One result of the establishment of the principate was the consolidation of the public domain.
The formal recitation, recitation as a 'function', would seem to be the creation of the principate.
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse | VariousNo young women were allowed to be present at the commedia del arte in the first times of the principate at Florence.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerHow, then, is it lawful to incriminate the principate of the whole Church?
The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI | Thomas W. (Thomas William) AlliesUnder the principate their status underwent a marked decline.
British Dictionary definitions for principate
/ (ˈprɪnsɪˌpeɪt) /
a state ruled by a prince
a form of rule in the early Roman Empire in which some republican forms survived
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