Chiefly poet. [f. SOVRAN a. + -TY.] Sovereignty.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., II. 446. I should ill become this Throne … And this Imperial Sov’ranty.

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1830.  Tennyson, Poems, 119. Bitter grief Doth hold the other half in sovranty.

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1859.  FitzGerald, Omar, xii. ‘How sweet is mortal Sovranty!’—think some.

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1894.  Mahaffy, in 19th Cent., May, 856. A priestly despotism, a condottiere sovranty.

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