sovereignty

noun6

1. •
   The quality or state of being sovereign.
2. •
   Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.

   • […] Androgeus, false to natiue soyle, / And enuious of Vncles soueraintie, / Betrayd his countrey vnto forreine spoyle: […] — 1590
3. •
   Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
4. •
   Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
5. •
   A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.

   • [T]his Disunion at length occasioned the total Ruin of them all; the Christians being thereby enabled also to erect diverse small Sovereignties, vvith Regal Titles. — 1732
6. •
   Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.

   • [His head,] Wherein by curious soueraigntie of Art, / Are fixt his piercing instruments of sight: / Whose fiery circles beare encompassed / A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares: […] — 1587