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sovereignly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From Middle English sovereynly, sovereynliche, soveraynliche, equivalent to sovereign + -ly.

  1. To the highest degree; wholly; utterly

    “They are sovereignly unjust, for all the parties are human beings with the same essential interests, and no one of them is the wholly perverse demon which another often imagines him to be.”

    “There is something almost magical at first sight in the transformation which the Australian colonies have undergone in a very limited space of time; yet it is but the natural result of the untrammelled energy of a race sovereignly fitted to "subdue the earth."”