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Liege :: Liege (a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord..

Sovereignize :: Sovereignize (v. i.) To exercise supreme authority.

Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..

Amnesty :: Amnesty (v.) An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection..

Princess :: Princess (n.) A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince..

Allegiance :: Allegiance (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state..

Pound :: Pound (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value..

Knight Banneret :: Knight banneret () A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle..

Thearchy :: Thearchy (n.) Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

Nizam :: Nizam (n.) The title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad, in India, since 1719..

Sovereign :: Sovereign (a.) Princely; royal.

Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..

Coronation :: Coronation (n.) The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty..

Court :: Court (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court..

Emblem :: Emblem (n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity..

Empire :: Empire (n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

Subsidy :: Subsidy (n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.

Imperial :: Imperial (a.) Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme..

Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

Absolute :: Absolute (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch..

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