Large in scale and in intent. Grandness is a claim about ambition as much as about size.

The broadest rank of kind, holding whole classes of living things. Also a realm under one rule.

Holding to what is right when nothing compels it. Nobility here is a description of conduct, not of rank.

To have as one's own and answer for it — possession with responsibility inside it; sovereignty's quiet verb.

Holding authority over oneself that no outside hand can revoke. In this house, what every vessel is at arrival — ownership of one's own data, meaning, and silence.

Authority over one's own ground that no outside party may revoke. Sovereignty is not independence — it is the right to decide within one's own bounds.