(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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