All 5 Uses

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Miss Doyle, may I remind you that this is the court, and you are curtsying to your sovereign, not performing in the Folies Bergère?†
Chpt 1
Bessie rises as if Pip were her beloved sovereign.†
Chpt 2 *
After all, you will face your sovereign.†
Chpt 3
I stumbled twice, and I cannot imagine how I shall manage with the long train of my gown thrown over my left arm, my head bowed toward my sovereign.†
Chpt 3
Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has.†
Chpt 3

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