PRINCIPALITY - The Law Mind Legal Dictionary

PRINCIPALITYn.

Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913

Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. Jer. xiii. 18. The prerogative and principality above everything else. Jer. Taylor. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. "Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime." Milton. The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.

principalitynoun

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A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess. | A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the third lowest level of angels, ranked above archangels and below powers. | The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority. | The state of being principal; pre-eminence.

Principalityname

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Wales | Alternative letter-case form of principality; any of the actual extant principalities.