Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Sovreign
sovreign, adj. [see sovreign, n.]
- Supreme; highest; greatest; superlative; most intense; most extreme; [fig.] divinest; most Christ-like.
- Royal; superior; surpassing all others in glory; [fig.] aloof; formal; distant; inaccessible; untouchable; unapproachable.
- Treble; tenor; high in pitch; [fig.] droning.
- Extraordinary; glorious; magnificent; rare; sublime; [fig.] golden; aureate; shining.
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