sovereign
noun
a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
sovereignly
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a word derived from
sovereign.
Example Sentences
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Politically and artistically, it seemed to us far more complex and challenging than the one in which those two disparate birds—the sovereignly solipsistic Joyce and the hedonistic Hemingway—had lived twenty or thirty years before.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2012
O glorious Nature! supremely fair and sovereignly good!
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
Here, however, under the wings of my sovereignly beloved, did the most delicious hours of my life flow on; my Charles I had, and, in him, every thing my fond heart could wish or desire.
From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland
The poet has only the power of chance, a power sovereignly capricious, to contend against the passion he has chosen to represent.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
Now, have asked the stoics, the Epicureans, the manicheans, and the atheists, how harmonize the presence of evil with the idea of a sovereignly good, wise, and powerful God?
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
