sovereign

[SovĀ·er*eign]

Put simply, your sovereign is your king or queen. George III was the sovereign of Great Britain and her colonies including the American ones. At least, he was until a little thing called the Revolutionary War upset everything.

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Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.

Noun
a nation''s ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

Adjective S.
greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal"

Adjective S.
of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"


a.
Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.

a.
Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.

a.
Princely; royal.

a.
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.

a.
Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.

n.
The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.

n.
A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.

n.
Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.


Sovereign

Sov"er*eign (? ∨ ?; 277), a. [OE. soverain, sovereyn, OF. soverain, suvrain, F. souverain, LL. superanus, fr. L. superus that is above, upper, higher, fr. super above. See Over, Super, and cf. Soprano. The modern spelling is due to a supposed connection with reign.] 1. Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince. 2. Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion. 3. Princely; royal. "Most sovereign name." Shak.
At Babylon was his sovereign see.
4. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
5. Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy. Dryden.
Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
Sovereign state, a state which administers its own government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power.

Sovereign

Sov"er*eign (? ∨ ?; 277), n. 1. The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.
2. A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86. 3. (Zo'94l.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy. Syn. -- King; prince; monarch; potentate; emperor.

Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.

The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.

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Usage Examples

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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Other Usage Examples

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

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