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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Being acquainted with the deleterious effects of a malarious tropical atmosphere, we secured a pair of overalls, advertised as sovran for 'all-overishness,' the dreaded curse of an African climate.
From He by Walter Herries Pollock
Come," you say, "the brain is seeking, While the sovran heart is dead; Yet this glean'd, when Gods were speaking, Rarer secrets than the toiling head.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
No child of earth, born of the Sage's will, The fair nymph Mená pleased the sovran hill.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
The Druids, as we have seen from Cæsar, whose observations are entirely confirmed by Strabo and by references in Irish legends,25 were the really sovran power in Celtica.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
A mere nothing makes you fall into it; a mere nothing withdraws you from it, above all a bath of light, that sovran stimulus of activity.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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