0 the right of a country to partly control another: --
Japan acknowledged Russian suzerainty over the island of Sakhalin.
This form was continued in 777 with language implicitly excluding papal suzerainty.
He has spoken about suzerainty.
There is also the question of suzerainty.
There is also continuing muddle about suzerainty.
I mean suzerainty and nothing else.
In both cases there is a suzerainty.
I say "more or less"because there was the famous word"suzerainty" which came into the great constitutional struggle.
We must get rid of the feeling of your suzerainty and you as bosses.