principality

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRINCIPAL'ITY, noun 1. Sovereignty; supreme power. 2. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. Titus 3:1. 3. The territory of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as the principality of Wales. 4. Superiority; predominance. [Little used.] 5. In Scripture, royal state or attire. Jeremiah 13:1.
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