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Definition of Supreme authority
1. Noun. Someone with the power to settle matters at will. "She was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supreme Authority
Literary usage of Supreme authority
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"The supreme authority in a state is that on the will of which the exercise of
all other authorities depends : insomuch that, if, and in so far as, ..."
2. Ethics: Or, Moral Philosophy by Walter Henry Hill (1884)
"In order for supreme authority in the body politic to be a means capable of effecting
... It is manifest that the supreme authority cannot practically or ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"... denied the inference that, unless the supreme authority be lodged in one part
of the empire over all the other parts, there can be no government. ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"... denied the inference that, unless the supreme authority be lodged in one part
of the empire over all the other parts, there can be no government. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"They exercise supreme authority by reason of their charge, for receiving and
sending embassies to the neighboring Kings and tyrants, for sending them gifts ..."
6. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"It remands woman to the States for her protection, thus giving to the State the
supreme authority and overthrowing the entire results of the war, ..."
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