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UK
/ɪmpˈiəɹɪəm/
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NOUN
- supreme authority; absolute dominion
- the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
How To Use imperium In A Sentence
- I found that the origin comes from a Greek word, 'Imperium'. India In The Commonwealth
- Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give. Latin Literature
- Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
- The most obvious, and in the abstract perhaps least objectionable, kind of informal imperium is that exercised by a country seeking to protect its interests and those of its friends by taking on a policing role in regional conflicts.
- There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
- But this envisioned imperium may not resolve the challenges confronting the United States.
- The first was the Imperium's bloody-minded refusal to die beneath the weight of heresy, secession, alien aggres?sion and daemonancy.
- Igitur a principio coronationis nostr� imperium nostrum aduersus dei inimicos Persas nostrum odium in corde nutriuit, dum cerneret illos in Christianos gloriari, eleuatique in nomen dei, et Christianorum dominari regionibus. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- Taking advantage of its remoteness from the administrative centre of the Imperium they had enslaved the native inhabitants.
- Can it lay the ghost of the Roman imperium and become something other than a male gerontocracy?