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How to use principality in a sentence

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Principality means a region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess. Example: “The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.”

Examples of principality by meaning

nounA region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.

  • At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities, which were frequently at war with one another.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 14
  • The principality of Freedonia (www.freedonia.org), an earnest collective of secessionist superlibertarians based in Boston, falls into the first category.2000 March, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2005

More sentences with principality

  • The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.From the entry circle
  • Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”2019 June 13, Jon Henley, “'Mini-Trump across the Channel': EU media on Boris Johnson as British PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry johnson
  • This movement, partly religious and partly political, gave rise to the independent principality of the vladikas.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 585. From the entry Vladika
  • The first of the principalities of the Low Countries to take clear shape was the county of Flanders.2018, Paul Arblaster, A History of the Low Countries. From the entry county
  • We are all the subjects of time, my princesa, even you, whose principality, or should I say, whose princessipality, resides, by necessity, within it.2000, Kathleen Alcalá, Treasures in Heaven, Chronicle Books, page 168. From the entry princessipality
  • TS‘I: principality, separated by the Yellow River from Tsin and Yen; it lay in North Shan Tung, and in the coast part of Chih Li.[1908, Edward Harper Parker, Ancient China Simplified, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., →OCLC, page xi. From the entry Chihli
  • Eritrean forces inroaded the Ras Doumeirah principality, a strategic place at the narrowest crossing point to the Gulf of Aden at the strait of Babeal Mendeb.2019, Everisto Benyera, “Borders and the Coloniality of Human Mobility: A View from Africa”, in Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi…. From the entry inroad
  • Geographically, the Prahova River separates the Eastern Carpathians from the Southern range and, historically, the valley was an important passageway between the principalities of Wallachia and Transylvania.2013, Lucy Mallows, Rudolf Abraham, Transylvania (Bradt Travel Guide), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137. From the entry Prahova

Meaning of principality

  1. noun A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.
  2. noun A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the third lowest level of angels, ranked above archangels and below powers.
  3. noun The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority.

Full definition of principality

Questions about principality in a sentence

How do you use principality in a sentence?
Principality is used as a noun. For example: “The ten Circles of the Holy Roman Empire were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.”
What is a short sentence with principality?
“Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.””
What does principality mean?
Principality means a region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.

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