Definition of "empery" [em•per•y]

• Absolute dominion or jurisdiction; sovereignty. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "It was in this mood that he discovered something that made him forget empery over the white feet of woman."