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sovranly

sovranly is the archaic spelling of sovereignly.

Meaning of sovereignly

Adverb

sovereignly (comparative more sovereignly, superlative most sovereignly)

  1. (archaic) 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.1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe

Forms of sovranly

comparativemore sovranly
superlativemost sovranly

Origin of sovranly

From sovran + -ly.

Questions about sovranly

What is sovranly the archaic spelling of?
Sovranly is the archaic spelling of sovereignly.

Words near sovranly in the dictionary

  1. Sovnarkom
  2. sovok
  3. sovoks
  4. Sovprene
  5. sovran
  6. sovranly
  7. sovrans
  8. sovranties
  9. sovranty
  10. sovranuclear
  11. sovrin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sovranly (page history and authors); sovereignly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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