Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRIN-CI-PAL'I-TY, n. [Fr. principalité.]

1. Sovereignty; supreme power. – Sidney. Spenser.
2. A prince; one invested with sovereignty. – Tit. iii.
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.] – Taylor.
5. In Scripture, royal state or attire. – Jer. xiii.