Sovereign vs Kingship - What's the difference?
sovereign | kingship |
Exercising power of rule.
Exceptional in quality.
Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.v:
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) South
Having supreme, ultimate power.
Princely; royal.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
* (rfdate) Hooker
A monarch; the ruler of a country.
* Jefferson
One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
Any butterfly of the tribe , as the (ursula) and the viceroy.
The dignity, rank or office of a king; the state of being a king.
A monarchy.
The territory or dominion of a king; a kingdom.
As nouns the difference between sovereign and kingship
is that sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country while kingship is the dignity, rank or office of a king; the state of being a king.As an adjective sovereign
is exercising power of rule.sovereign
English
(wikipedia sovereign)Adjective
(en adjective)- sovereign nation
- The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze
- a sovereign remedy
- Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
- most sovereign name
- We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
Derived terms
* sovereignlySynonyms
* autonomous * supremeNoun
(en noun)- No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign , that is, to the nation.
