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Definition of Sovereigns
1. sovereign [n] - See also: sovereign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sovereigns
Literary usage of Sovereigns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1888)
"THE sovereigns OF INDUSTRY. EARLY HISTORY. With the first month of 1874 a new
... The history of the sovereigns of Industry has never yet been written. ..."
2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"Monarchical sovereigns who do not enjoy royal honors yield the precedence to ...
(6) These different points respecting the relative rank of sovereigns and ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of Englandby Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1854)
"WILLIAM WILSON, of Ashbocking, Suffolk : the Prize of TEN sovereigns, for his 2
years and 3 months-old Chesnut Suffolk Stallion " Great-Britain ;" bred by ..."
4. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"The English cabinet had promised the continental sovereigns that it should be so
... With respect to the Duke of Berry's views, it was for the sovereigns, ..."
5. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Hickling Prescott (1885)
"Interviews with the sovereigns.—Sensations caused by the Discovery. ... TOWARD the
latter end of May, 1492, the Spanish sovereigns quitted Granada, ..."
6. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1863)
"During the aristocratic ages which preceded the present time, the sovereigns of
Europe had been deprived of, or had relinquished, many of the rights ..."