sovran
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sovran
1625–35; alteration of sovereign, modeled on Italian sovrano
Example Sentences
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It displeases me to think it possible that a subject should ever become a sovran.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
Whence knew I the deep sense that in the soul Is thrill’d and thrall’d by perfect beauty’s sight, If never beauty did myself control With all the mastery of sovran might?
From Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost by Blaeu, Willem
There is a trace of the same awe in Coleridge's deathless hymn to Mont Blanc— On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc, O dread and silent mount!
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
As if we stoop'd our sovran crown, or held it As vassal from the greatest king alive!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
Leave, I crave, leave flow'ry Pindus-head; e'en now I deem Apollo bathes me in that sovran wave; else must I hold it, that thy gentle sprite, fears thy dear Orpheus fade through me from sight.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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