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    [Noun]  | "sov*er*eign*ty" | \ ˈsä-v(ə-)rən-tē \


    1: supreme power especially over a body politic

    2: freedom from external control : autonomy

    3: controlling influence

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English soverainte, from Anglo-French sovereinté, from soverein see: {sovereign:2 };

    [Noun]  | "popular sovereignty" 


    1: a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people

    2: a pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there

    Origin: 1848 ;

    [Noun]  | "squatter sovereignty" 


    1: popular sovereignty

    Origin: 1854 ;

    [Noun]  | "sovereignties" 


    1: the state of being free from the control or power of another;


      * e.g., " ... upon leaving home she felt that she had achieved sovereignty for the first time in her life "




    2: a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government;


      * e.g., " ... as parts of the same sovereignty, the states should not enact laws intended to harm one another economically "



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    3: controlling power or influence over others;


      * e.g., " ... the gradual sovereignty of English as the language of international communication "



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    [Noun]  | "sovereignty" 


    1: the state of being free from the control or power of another;


      * e.g., " ... upon leaving home she felt that she had achieved sovereignty for the first time in her life "




    2: a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government;


      * e.g., " ... as parts of the same sovereignty, the states should not enact laws intended to harm one another economically "



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    3: controlling power or influence over others;


      * e.g., " ... the gradual sovereignty of English as the language of international communication "



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     [ "sovereignty" ]

    1: Should mean "Independence and self-government" not just "government" because that meaning is already taken.

      * e.g.,  ... Ron: We will transfer sovereignty to the Iraqi people. 

     [ "sovereignty" ]

    1: see: red tape

      * e.g.,  ... I lost £50,000 of fish because it sat in the back of my lorry rotting away, thanks to all this new sovereignty 

     [ "popular sovereignty" ]

    1: doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there

      * e.g.,  ... States used popular sovereignty to determine whether slavery was permitted or not. 

     [ "Boner Sovereignty" ]

    1: An autonomous state of arousal governed by no particular woman or bearing of friction. one that is sovereign in their sexuality; especially : an autonomous state of arousal free from relationships and the vice of significant other.

      * e.g.,  ... Darryl was free now, he was amongst his kind. His boner was free to run and splurge the fruits of the town for as soon as his relationship ended; he was in a state of Boner Sovereignty. 

     [ "sovereignty" ]

    1: the supreme version of alpha it can also be used instead of the 😭emoji it can basically be used in any sentence in any context

      * e.g.,  ... "omg did you see the new alpha badboy?" 

     [ "data sovereignty" ]

    1: Maintaining ownership and direct control of your data. Preserving and defending data integrity and security by limiting access.

      * e.g.,  ... They lost their data sovereignty by uploading it to the cloud. 

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