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Definition of Sovereignty
1. Noun. Government free from external control.
2. Noun. Royal authority; the dominion of a monarch.
Generic synonyms: Dominion, Rule
Specialized synonyms: Scepter, Sceptre
Derivative terms: Reign
3. Noun. The authority of a state to govern another state.
Definition of Sovereignty
1. n. 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.
Definition of Sovereignty
1. Noun. (context: of a nation) The state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations. ¹
2. Noun. (context: of a ruler) Supreme authority over all things. (as in an emperor, king, dictator, or God, ref. ‘King of kings, and Lord of lords’) ¹
3. Noun. (context: of self) The liberty to decide one's thoughts and actions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sovereignty
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Medical Definition of Sovereignty
1. Origin: OE. Soverainetee, OF. Sovrainete, F. Souverainete. 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sovereignty
Literary usage of Sovereignty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United by Elisha Mulford (1870)
"•what the will of the many is, nor by what law its sovereignty or its ...
These theories are the assertion of a sovereignty, external to the nation, ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"Absolute and full sovereignty was attributed to those monarchs who enjoyed an
... By this distinction the divisibility of sovereignty was recognised. ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"Yet the way for another conception of sovereignty is prepared by Locke, whose "
Two Treatises on Government" appeared in 1689, and paved the way for the ..."
4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"Absolute and full sovereignty was attributed to those monarchs who enjoyed an
... By this distinction the divisibility of sovereignty was recognised. ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"The principle of the sovereignty of the people, which is to be found, ... If there
be a country in the world where the doctrine of the sovereignty of the ..."
6. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1894)
"STATE sovereignty BEFORE 1789. THIRTY years or more ago no position concerning
the constitutional relations of the States to the United States was perhaps ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Even if Hobbes were judged on his doctrine of sovereignty alone our debt to ...
The very term sovereignty is the catchword of all the controversies of the ..."
8. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1848)
"The principle of the sovereignty of the people, which is to be found, ... If there
be a country in the world where the doctrine of the sovereignty of the ..."
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