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empery
[ em-puh-ree ]
noun
, plural em·per·ies.
- absolute dominion; sovereignty.
empery
/ ˈɛmpərɪ /
noun
- archaic.dominion or power; empire
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of empery1
C13 (in the sense: the status of an emperor): from Anglo-French emperie, from Latin imperium power; see empire
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Example Sentences
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction 35 which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
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That was in the day of his lust for power and life, when her empery seemed equal in degree to his.
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They seemed to be saying, defiantly perhaps, that they could cry if they would, but they had other modes of empery.
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A lady So fair, and fastened to an empery, Would make the great'st king double.
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Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
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