empery
/em-puh-ree/US // ˈɛm pə ri //UK // (ˈɛmpərɪ) //
经验,经验之谈,帝国,经验主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural em·per·ies.
- : absolute dominion; sovereignty.
Examples
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction 35 which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
That was in the day of his lust for power and life, when her empery seemed equal in degree to his.
They seemed to be saying, defiantly perhaps, that they could cry if they would, but they had other modes of empery.
A lady So fair, and fastened to an empery, Would make the great'st king double.
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
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