All 4 Uses of "sovereign" in "Macbeth"

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All 4 Uses

sovereign
in
Macbeth
(Edited)

and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
p. 35.6 *
and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
p. 34.8 *
To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds.
p. 169.1
To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds.
p. 188.8

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Definitions:

(1) (sovereign)
a supreme ruler; or describing a political body as self-governing
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
a British coin used until 1914; an adjective describing something as powerfully effective