suzerain
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In four days at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool, nine world and 13 American records were demolished, and U.S. aquatic status soared to suzerain heights.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1878, Britain took Cyprus in "trust" from the declining Ottoman Empire and disregarded Cypriot demands for union with Greece on the grounds that the Sultan was still the suzerain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ethelberht, King of Kent and suzerain over the kingdoms south of the Humber, married a Christian wife, Bertha, daughter of Charibert of Soissons, and this event indirectly led to the coming of St. Augustine.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
The English kings did, indeed, exercise some sort of suzerain authority over most of the neighbouring colonies, but this authority was probably never so complete as historians would have us believe.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
He disposes of his wealth between the poor and the church, and retires to a fief whose tenant is willing to receive his suzerain as a guest.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
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