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

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 McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

He never consulted the Roko Tui Mbau in temporal affairs, and he enjoyed tabu privileges little inferior to those paid to his spiritual suzerain.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

The monarch was rapidly acquiring a centralized power, which was very different from the overlordship of a feudal suzerain.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles