sovereignhood
English
Etymology
From sovereign + -hood.
Noun
sovereignhood (countable and uncountable, plural sovereignhoods)
- (uncountable) The state or condition of a sovereign; sovereignty.
- 2017, Ranabir Samaddar, Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age, page 41:
- It meant politics, political personhood, republic, sovereignhood and power.
- (countable) An independent or sovereign territory.
- 2021, Aparna Pande, Routledge Handbook on South Asian Foreign Policy:
- The people of the area were divided into the overlapping sovereignhood, and the British changed that when they arrived and when they left.
Related terms
- sovereigndom
- sovereignness
- sovereignship