Admiralty - "Admiralty" As A Metonym For "sea Power"

"Admiralty" As A Metonym For "sea Power"

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power. For example, the well-known lines from Kipling's Song of the Dead:

If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

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