sovereign
noun
a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
sovereignly
-
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
And in this, O my God, Thou art sovereignly just, sovereignly holy, and worthy of our praise and adoration.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Grenville Kleiser
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
It was, he said, to the Holy See belonged the privilege of judging sovereignly the claims of these competitors of the empire.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Count Brahe, keenly aware that his presence was not sovereignly welcome, had several times expressed the fear that his majesty might stand in need of repose.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
