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Definition of Suzerainty
1. Noun. The position or authority of a suzerain. "Under the suzerainty of..."
2. Noun. The domain of a suzerain.
Definition of Suzerainty
1. n. The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.
Definition of Suzerainty
1. Noun. A relation between states in which a subservient nation has its own government, but is unable to take international action independent of the superior state. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suzerainty
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Suzerainty
Literary usage of Suzerainty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects by John Atkinson Hobson (1900)
"Why was the claim of suzerainty, never raised since the Pretoria Convention of
1884, reasserted by Mr. Chamberlain in 1897 ? It is often said and supposed ..."
2. The Equality of States in International Law by Edwin De Witt Dickinson (1920)
"LIMITATIONS INCIDENT TO suzerainty The disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire
and of the Ottoman Empire gave rise to another type of external limi- tation ..."
3. Rights and Wrongs of the Transvaal War by Edward Tyas Cook (1902)
"CHAPTER XVI THE QUESTION OF ' suzerainty ' The word ' suzerainty ' in the Convention
of 1881—The word omitted, but the substance retained, in the Convention ..."
4. Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law by Society of Comparative Legislation, London (1899)
"Mr. Hall, in his work on international law, has limited his definition of a
suzerainty to that which arises from the feudal relationship. ..."
5. Gleanings of Past Years, 1843-78 by William Ewart Gladstone (1879)
"I believe that suzerainty over a large range of country would then have been ...
Even in the present Turkish Empire, suzerainty exists in half-a-dozen ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"To illustrate the vague use of the word in modern diplomacy may be quoted the
description of suzerainty given by Lord Kimberley, which Mr Chamberlain in the ..."
7. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The suzerainty of one State over vassal States, or the protectorate of a strong
State over ... In modern times the protectorate is preferred to suzerainty, ..."
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