The Collaborative International Dictionary
Principality \Prin`ci*pal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Principalities. [L. principalitas pre["e]minence, excellence: cf. F. principalit['e], principaut['e]. See Principal.]
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Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station.
--Sir P. Sidney.Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
--Jer. xiii. 18.The prerogative and principality above everything else.
--Jer. Taylor. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. ``Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime.''
--Milton.The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.
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n. (plural of principality English)
Usage examples of "principalities".
James' wisecrack about Grantville's sanitation was bound to be the prelude to another of the doctor's frequent tirades on the subject of the lunacy of political leaders in general, and those of the Confederated Principalities of Europe in particular.
The United States of which Mike Stearns was President was, on one level, just another of the many Principalities which formed the Confederated Principalities of Europe under the rule of the king of Sweden.
But the king of Sweden, who was also the emperor of the Confederated Principalities of Europe, had refused to direct its dismantling.
In the sometimes bizarre way that history works, the officially Protestant Confederated Principalities of Europe—in that portion of it under U.
In doing so I will keep to the order indicated above, and discuss how such principalities are to be ruled and preserved.
Hence arose those frequent rebellions against the Romans in Spain, France, and Greece, owing to the many principalities there were in these states, of which, as long as the memory of them endured, the Romans always held an insecure possession.
But you must note that the state of the Soldan is unlike all other principalities, for the reason that it is like the Christian pontificate, which cannot be called either an hereditary or a newly formed principality.
The king of Sweden and emperor of the Confederated Principalities of Europe was a huge man.
With the Baltic under their control, Sweden is cut off from the rest of the Confederated Principalities of Europe.
And if her father succeeded in his plans—as he had a habit of doing, Ekstrom reflected with a certain complacency—she would also become empress of the Confederated Principalities of Europe.
Given the tortuous complexity of the political structure of the Confederated Principalities of Europe, which resembled one of the mythical creatures made up from the parts of different animals—a manticore, or a sphinx, or a winged horse—the United States was a part of the CPE as well as an independent realm in its own right.
Other than Saxony and Brandenburg, Hesse-Kassel is the largest and most powerful of the principalities within Gustav's Confederation.
Since Gustav Adolf had sundered away a good portion of it from Ferdinand II of Austria to form his Confederated Principalities of Europe, the situation had—if anything—gotten even worse.
It is he, and he alone, who binds this Confederated Principalities of Europe together.
And with those ports in our hands, his Confederated Principalities will starve and wither like a tree cut off from its roots.