The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sovereignty \Sov"er*eign*ty\, n.; pl. Sovereignties. [OE. soverainetee, OF. sovrainet['e], F. souverainet['e].] 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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of sovereignty English)
Usage examples of "sovereignties".
Where two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins.
The point of intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society.
Where two or several of these sovereignties associate the state begins.
The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society.
For years, Yu Chi had made his base in the no-man's-land of wild mountains that thrust up like a fist between China, Burma and Tibet, a region where boundaries and sovereignties were shadowy things.
With several tribes, countries, sovereignties, globalities, what-have-you, I’m kind of grandfathered.