empery
Americannoun
plural
emperiesnoun
Etymology
Origin of empery
1250–1300; Middle English emperie < Anglo-French < Latin imperium mastery, sovereignty, empire, equivalent to imper ( āre ) to rule ( see emperor) + -ium -ium
Example Sentences
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Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction 35 which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
And often, when woman was nigh to winning to the empery of my mind over me, I sought Laulani's shin-bone.
From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack
How shall men doubt His empery over time Whose dwelling is a deep so absolute That we can only find Him in our souls.
From Watchers of the Sky by Noyes, Alfred
Those that are proud of fickle empery And place their chiefest good in earthly pomp, Behold the Turk and his great emperess!
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Marlowe, Christopher
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