Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sovereign manner or degree.
- Potently; effectually; efficaciously.
- With supremacy; supremely; as a sovereign.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic To the highest degree;
wholly ;utterly
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Examples
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On this particular day however God sovereignly exercised his Devine prerogative and overruled the governing of both these heavenly bodies for the sake of his people.
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And our God, who is always at work in the unseen places, sovereignly placed this beautiful story of redemption in the lineage of Jesus.
Do You Know Who I Am? Angela Thomas 2010
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Between my family background and the DNA that God sovereignly deposited in me, I grew up to be a highly motivated, deeply insecure, hardworking overachiever.
Living on the Edge Chip Ingram 2009
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Now that we are unfortunately becoming more and more global dependent, rather than sovereignly independent there appears to be more and more legislation now coming from the international community - a great deal of which also infringes upon American civil liberties as guaranteed in our Constitution without acknowledging it's provisions.
Obama Expands and Moves on Bush Agenda Involving New Treaty 2009
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“A man of my quality!” and sovereignly despise a merchant; while the merchant so often hears his profession spoken of with disdain that he is weak enough to blush at it.
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That God or a Supreme Being exists, sovereignly just and merciful, the Exemplar of the true life; that whosoever is ignorant of or disbelieves in His existence cannot obey Him or know Him as a
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Has a necessary being, sovereignly intelligent, created them from nothing, or has he only arranged them?
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This is, however, what we have dared to impute to God — to the eternal and sovereignly good being!
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This capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs, and animating such multitudes of agents; this eye, which looked through Europe; this prompt invention; this inexhaustible resource: — what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations! — when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea; drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops,
Representative Men 2006
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Nothing of body, when friend writes to friend; the mind impelling sovereignly the vassal-fingers.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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