[CO- 3 b.] A joint sovereign; a fellow-sovereign.
1793. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), IV. 45. He proceeds … to act as co-sovereign of the territory.
1888. Times, 26 June, 5/2. (Opening of Reichstag) On his right … a galaxy of all his chief co-Sovereigns.
So Co-sovereignty.
1712. Lond. Gaz., No. 5050/2. The Canton of Berne shall be admitted into the Co-Sovereignty of the common Bailliages.
1801. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XI. 646. Each … merging his local sovereignty in the extended co-sovereignty.
