principalities

/ ˌprɪnsɪˈpælɪtɪz /

plural noun

1. often capital the seventh of the nine orders into which the angels are divided in medieval angelology Also calledprincedoms

Example Sentences

Tatar control—part occupation and part suzerainty over impotent, tribute-paying Russian principalities—lasted more than 200 years.

From The Daily Beast

Eastern companies were taking up principalities, and at Cumberland Gap, those helmeted Englishmen had acquired a kingdom.

From Project Gutenberg

We heard of provinces and principalities added to the realm, and we forgot the cost.

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A very remarkable case was reported six years ago, from one of the minor German principalities.

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During this century their power was limited by the formation of diets in many of the principalities.

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In his hands, and in those of his prudent successors, it became one of the most flourishing of the North-German principalities.

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