All 4 Uses of
sovereign
in
Atlas Shrugged
- But danger, to him, was a signal to shut off his sight, suspend his judgment and pursue an unaltered course, on the unstated premise that the danger would remain unreal by the sovereign power of his wish not to see it-like a foghorn within him, blowing, not to sound a warning, but to summon the fog.†
Chpt 3.4
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '—to the order of others.'†
Chpt 3.7 *
- Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind.†
Chpt 3.7
- He kept stating in the tone of a feudal sovereign, "I'm the boss here, from now on ....I give the orders ....I came to take over ....I own this place....I am Dr. Robert Stadler-and if you don't know that name in this place, you have no business being here, you infernal idiots!†
Chpt 3.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(sovereign) of a person: a nation's ruler or head of state
of a political body: not controlled by outside forces -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, a sovereign is a British coin used until 1914.