Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absolute dominion or jurisdiction; sovereignty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Empire; power; government.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Empire; sovereignty; dominion.
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- noun obsolete An
empire ; the status or dominion of anemperor . - noun archaic Absolute power or authority.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And from the fear-stricken, jungle - lurking, cave-haunting creature of long ago, he won to empery over the whole animal world because he developed into the most terrible and awful killer of all the animals.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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There, forty feet beneath, wrapped about by an octopus that measured nine feet across from tentacle tip to tentacle tip and that could well drown the stoutest swimmer, he cooly and casually did the one thing that gave to him his empery over the monster.
The Water Baby 2010
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He felt, somehow, that he had won to empery over the delicate lines and firm muscles of those feet and ankles he had rubbed with snow, and this empery seemed to extend to all women.
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Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through high adventure and noble deeds to Her — ay, and with her, winning her, his arm about her, and carrying her on in flight through the empery of his mind.
Chapter 2 2010
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And often, when woman was nigh to winning to the empery of my mind over me, I sought Laulani's shin-bone.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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It was in this mood that he discovered something that made him forget empery over the white feet of woman.
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There, forty feet beneath, wrapped about by an octopus that measured nine feet across from tentacle tip to tentacle tip and that could well drown the stoutest swimmer, he cooly and casually did the one thing that gave to him his empery over the monster.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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My my empery is like my…drapes…the cloth thing I wore—all charred.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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My my empery is like my…drapes…the cloth thing I wore—all charred.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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My my empery is like my…drapes…the cloth thing I wore—all charred.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
pavonine commented on the word empery
Absolute dominion or jurisdiction; sovereignty.
December 17, 2007
qms commented on the word empery
Once driven to tantrums and fits,
To hysterical peaks and then pits,
Her emotional empery
Is now quite exemplary
As drugs have quelled rebellious wits.
April 5, 2015