sovran
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sovran
1625–35; alteration of sovereign, modeled on Italian sovrano
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Thou first and chief, sole sovran of the Vale!
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts
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
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 L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
The deadly sin in any book is dulness, and an occasional anecdote—if it point a moral so much the better—is sovran balsam for spleen.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
Mardonius, as “bow-bearer to the king,” a semi-regal office, rode forth a stage to meet the sovran.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
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