Both Uses of
sovereign
in
Brave New World
- It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes–make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.†
p. 177..6
- People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were the sovereign goods.†
p. 228..6 *
Definition:
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(sovereign) of a person: a nation's ruler or head of state
of a political body: not controlled by outside forces