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発音

• IPA: /pɹɪnsɪˈpælɪti/
• ハイフネーション: prin‧ci‧pal‧i‧ty

名詞

principality (countable and uncountable, plural principalities)

1. (countable) A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess. [from 14th c.]
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 14:

     At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities, which were frequently at war with one another.

   • 2000 March, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED‎, archived from the original on 24 March 2005:

     The principality of Freedonia (www.freedonia.org), an earnest collective of secessionist superlibertarians based in Boston, falls into the first category.

2. (theology, countable) A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the third lowest level of angels, ranked above archangels and below powers. [from 16th c.]
3. (obsolete) The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority. [14th–19th c.]
4. (now rare) The state of being principal; pre-eminence. [from 14th c.]

派生語

参考

• choirs of angels
• archangel
• power