It means supreme power or authority it depends on how you are using the word
Greeting's!
<span>Which one of the following facets of language is a suprasegmental that linguists say adds meaning to speech?
a. onomatopoeia </span>
The main purpose of Patrick Henry 's speech at Virginia Conference, was to convince the delegates to secede from Britain; moreover, to fight back against them. He antagonizes Britain by imputing every hardships they faced to Britain.
So basicly it was to persuade the reader
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