All 4 Uses of
sovereign
in
Henry IV, Part 1
- Our House, my sovereign liege, little deserves The scourge of greatness to be used on it; And that same greatness too which our own hands Have holp to make so portly.†
Scene 1.3
- — And telling me the sovereign'st thing on Earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.†
Scene 1.3
- He never did fall off, my sovereign liege, But by the chance of war: to prove that true Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took, When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank, In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound the best part of an hour In changing hardiment with great Glendower.†
Scene 1.3
- Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.
Scene 3.2 *sovereign = supreme (that of the King)
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