Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sovereignties"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sovereignty \Sov"er*eign*ty\, n.; pl. {Sovereignties}. [OE.
soverainetee, OF. sovrainet['e], F. souverainet['e].]
The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a
sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme
power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that
which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly
divided into many sovereignties.
Woman desiren to have sovereignty As well over their
husband as over their love. --Chaucer.
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