principate

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noun
Plural noun:
principates
  1. 1.

    (Ancient Rome, countable, uncountable)The early period of the Roman Empire, during which some characteristics of the government of the Roman Republic were retained; the reign of any particular emperor during said period.

    1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317, The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)The office of one who is principal or preeminent (such as a prince); the quality or status of being principal; preeminence.

    1998, Annabel S. Brett (translator and editor), William of Ockham, On the Power Of Emperors and Popes, Thoemmes Press, page 87, From all this we may draw the conclusion that papal principate was instituted for the utility and advantage of its subjects and not for the honour and glory or the utility and temporal advantage of the holder of the principate, in such a way as that such principate deserves to be called 'of service' and not of 'lordship'.

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)A state ruled by a prince; a principality.

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adjective
  1. 1.

    (not comparable)Primary; principal.

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princedomprimacyprincipalityoffice of a preeminent person princedomquality of being principal primacy, principalitystate ruled by a prince princedom, principality

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Latin prīncipātus, referring to the titles prīnceps senātūs (first among senators) and prīnceps cīvitātis (first among citizens), adopted by Octavian Caesar Augustus in order to preserve the illusion of formal continuance of some aspects of the Roman Republic.

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