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sovran

American

[sov-ruhn, suhv-] / ˈsɒv rən, ˈsʌv- /

noun

Literary.

sovereign.

sovran British

/ ˈsɒvrən /

noun

a literary word for sovereign

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Other Word Forms

sovranly adverb
sovranty noun

Etymology

Origin of sovran

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

Example Sentences

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You are sovran in the art: feigning and truth Are so commingled in you.

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

Then to his sovran lady came Hagan, Trony's chief.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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

Then there was the Ash whose bole had been cleft that it might be a "sovran" remedy for infantile hernia.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

And sly Bopeep forgot her sheep again In gay discourse with that engaging youth: Love hath such sovran remedies for pain!

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

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