sovran

[ sov-ruhn, suhv- ]

noun

, Literary.

1. sovereign.

sovran

/ ˈsɒvrən /

noun

1. a literary word for sovereign

Derived Forms

• ˈsovranty, noun
• ˈsovranly, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of sovran¹

1625–35; alteration of sovereign, modeled on Italian sovrano

Example Sentences

It displeases me to think it possible that a subject should ever become a sovran.

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Some are making love, a sovran means of killing time, whether one be born that day or twenty years ago.

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Just as the stolen potato is sovran for rheumatism, so "rue stolen thriveth the best."

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It does upset one's ideas and unsettle one's principles when sovran woman has nothing for one but bonnet-pins.

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Fairest of gems he bore with him over the beaker-of-waves, sovran strong: under shield he died.

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