Both Uses of
sovereign
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- A man of sovereign parts, he is esteem'd, Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.†
Scene 2.1 *
- This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces, Sole imperator, and great general Of trotting 'paritors: O my little heart!†
Scene 3.1
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