sovereignhood

English

Etymology

From sovereign +‎ -hood.

Noun

sovereignhood (countable and uncountable, plural sovereignhoods)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
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