English to Afrikaans Meaning of Sovereign - Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "soewerein" is:(selfstandige naamwoord) 'n opperste heerser, veral 'n monarg.(byvoeglike naamwoord) met oppermag of gesag; onafhanklik; outonoom.Die term "soewerein" verwys tipies na 'n persoon of entiteit wat absolute of hoogste mag en gesag oor 'n bepaalde gebied of groep mense besit. In die konteks van politieke stelsels is 'n soewerein dikwels die staatshoof, soos 'n koning, koningin, keiser of president. In ander kontekste kan die term verwys na die hoogste mag of gesag wat deur 'n regering, instelling of individu oor 'n spesifieke area van aktiwiteit of kundigheid besit word.

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "soewerein" is:(selfstandige naamwoord) 'n opperste heerser, veral 'n monarg.(byvoeglike naamwoord) met oppermag of gesag; onafhanklik; outonoom.Die term "soewerein" verwys tipies na 'n persoon of entiteit wat absolute of hoogste mag en gesag oor 'n bepaalde gebied of groep mense besit. In die konteks van politieke stelsels is 'n soewerein dikwels die staatshoof, soos 'n koning, koningin, keiser of president. In ander kontekste kan die term verwys na die hoogste mag of gesag wat deur 'n regering, instelling of individu oor 'n spesifieke area van aktiwiteit of kundigheid besit word.

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By the policy of Ferdinand and Ximenez the sovereign had been made absolute, and the Church and Inquisition adroitly adjusted to keep him so.
de Villefort but, like the feudal barons who rebelled against their sovereign, he dwelt in an impregnable fortress.
Having retired to rest a crowned sovereign, he will awake a captive.
Matthaios dropped from his knee to sit flat on the floor, careful to remain lower than his sovereign, as was the custom.
de Baisemeaux, sovereign dispenser of gastronomic delicacies, head cook of the royal fortress, whose trays, full-laden, were ascending the steep staircases, carrying some consolation to the prisoners in the shape of honestly filled bottles of good vintages.
A gallant knight shows to advantage bringing his lance to bear adroitly upon a fierce bull under the eyes of his sovereign, in the midst of a spacious plaza a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights show to advantage that entertain, divert, and, if we may say so, honour the courts of their princes by warlike exercises, or what resemble them but to greater advantage than all these does a knight-errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads, forests, and mountains, in quest of perilous adventures, bent on bringing them to a happy and successful issue, all to win a glorious and lasting renown.
Like every other sovereign in the Elládosi world, they reigned at his mercurial sufferance.
Matthaios returned to work in the palace of his sovereign.
I began my discourse by informing his majesty that our dominions consisted of two islands, which composed three mighty kingdoms under one sovereign, besides our plantations in America.
Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I.