Principality Definition

prĭnsə-pălĭ-tē
principalities
noun
principalities
The rank, dignity, or jurisdiction of a prince.
Webster's New World
The territory ruled by a prince.
Webster's New World
A country with which a prince's title is identified.
Webster's New World
The seventh of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
American Heritage

(now rare) The state of being principal; pre-eminence. [from 14th c.]

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principality
Plural:
principalities

Origin of Principality

  • From Anglo-Norman principalté, Middle French principalté, from Late Latin principalitas, from Latin principālis (“principal") + -tas.

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Principality Sentence Examples

  • A politique, Bohemund was resolved to engineer the enthusiasm of the crusaders to his own ends; and when his nephew Tancred left the main army at Heraclea, and attempted to establish a footing in Cilicia, the movement may have been already intended as a preparation for Bohemund's eastern principality.

  • The defeat was decisive; it made impossible the great eastern principality which Bohemund had contemplated.

  • Freeman "indisputably the third church not in a state of ruin in the principality," its choir furnishing "one of the choicest examples of the Early English style."

  • Indeed, it was not so much a principality as a municipal republic of the Venetian type.

  • The principality is divided between the sultan (vassal of the Dutch government) and the so-called independent prince Paku Alam; Ngawen and Imogiri are enclaves of Surakarta.

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