All 4 Uses of
sovereign
in
Moby Dick
- One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign.†
Chpt 88-90
- We must needs inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with that right.†
Chpt 88-90
- They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure.†
Chpt 109-111
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