sovereignties
- 1Plural of sovereignty.
Competing sovereignties clashed over the disputed territory for centuries.
The federation preserved the distinct sovereignties of its member states.
Note
The plural turns an abstraction into something countable. Its most natural reading is the territory sense: independent nations or self-governing polities, each one a sovereignty. It also counts rival claims to rule (competing sovereignties over one region) or the separate self-government kept by each member of a federation. For supreme power as an idea, the uncountable singular is the right choice: sovereignty over the region.
sovereignties is a form of sovereignty
sovereignty, noun: The capacity of a nation or polity to control its own resources, make laws independently, and govern itself without coercion by other states. Full entry
- Forms
- sovereigntysovereignties plural
- Spelling
- sovereignty → sovereignties: change y to i, add -es
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