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Definition of "sovran" []

  • Archaic spelling of sovereign. (adjective)

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Use "sovran" in a sentence
  • "Now the king had a brother, whom he had imprisoned in that pit of old time, and he had died there; but the folk of the realm deemed him still alive, and when his durance grew long, the courtiers of the king used to talk of this and of the tyranny of their liege Lord, and the bruit spread abroad that the sovran was a tyrant, so they fell upon him one day and slew him."
  • "The Oxford English Dictionary does include "sovran" and derivatives, but cites no use of them any more recently than 1887, and says that these spellings are now "chiefly poetic.""
  • "[[User: Ro Thorpe | Ro Thorpe]] 16: 26, 4 November 2008 (UTC):: The Oxford English Dictionary does include "sovran" and derivatives, but cites no use of them any more recently than 1887, and says that these spellings are now "chiefly poetic.""
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