Sovereign

/ˈsɒv.ɹɪn/ · adjective

Meaning

Exercising power of rule..

Definitions by Sense

1. Exercising power of rule.
2. Exceptional in quality.
3. (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
4. Having supreme, ultimate power.
5. Princely; royal.
6. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
7. A monarch; the ruler of a country.
8. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.

Example Sentences

sovereign nation

Her voice was her sovereign talent.

The ſoueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine She pownded ſmall, and did in peeces bruze, And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, Into his wound the iuyce thereof did ſcruze […]

[…] God save the mark!— And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;

Homer of Moly and Nepenthe singes: Moly, the gods most soveraigne hearbe divine. Nepenth Hellen's drink, which gladnes brings,— Hart's greife repells, and doth yᵉ witts refine.

a sovereign remedy

Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.

In Spain people still bathe in the sea or roll naked in the dew of the meadows on St. John’s Eve, believing that this is a sovereign preservative against diseases of the skin.

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Word Forms

• more sovereign
• most sovereign
• soveraign
• soveraigne
• sovran
• sovring
• sovrin
• sovereigns
• sovereigning
• sovereigned

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