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sceptre
/ˈsɛptɚ/
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What does sceptre mean?
noun
- An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.
verb
- To give a sceptre to.
- (figuratively) To invest with royal power.
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proper noun
- A hamlet (special service area) in the Rural Municipality of Clinworth, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
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In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.
Marco and Giuseppe, magnificently dressed, are seated on two thrones, occupied in cleaning the crown and the sceptre.
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They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.
When disabled from age any longer to hold the sceptre of power, he designates his successor, and transmits it to his favorite!
From pole to pole, and from the east to the west, he brandished his fiery sceptre as though he had usurped all heaven and earth.