overlordship in English

noun

state of being an overlord; position of one who rules with great influence and authority (sometimes in a domineering or tyrannical way)

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1. He reigned under the overlordship of Astyages, King of Media.

2. Kamachat Aslamie, ruler of Middag, was given a cane as a symbol of his local rule under Dutch overlordship.

3. The emperor acknowledged the pope's sovereignty over the Papal States, and in return Alexander acknowledged the emperor's overlordship of the Imperial Church.

4. By 1453 the overlordship of the island was held by James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, and in 1460 the advowson was exercised by Margaret Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury.

5. Apart from Javanese city-states, Raden Patah also gained overlordship of the ports of Jambi and Palembang in eastern Sumatra, which produced commodities such as lignaloes and gold.

6. The records that appear to locate Cuilén's fall to Lothian, therefore, could indicate that he was in the midst of exercising overlordship of this debatable land when Rhydderch seized the chance to exact revenge upon the abductor of his daughter.