regnant
See also: régnant
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From French régnant and its source, the present participle of Latin regnāre.
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regnant (not comparable)
- Reigning, ruling; currently holding power. [from 15th c.]
- 1910, A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology, page 99:
- The people are now the State, their will is the regnant will, and that will has this characteristic — it loves principles, it hates compromises; and the principles it loves must be regulative, fit to be applied to the work and guidance of life.
- Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence. [from 17th c.]
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 7:
- The doors of his temples were kept open in time of war, the time in which the ideas of contradiction and conflict are most naturally regnant.
- (postpositive) of a monarch, ruling in one's one right; often contrasted with consort and dowager
- Queen Elizabeth II reigns as queen regnant, unlike her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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regnant (plural regnants)
- (obsolete) A sovereign or ruler.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 6, in The Abbot. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
- Here are two sovereigns in the land, a regnant and a claimant - that is enough of one good thing - but if any one wants more, he may find a king in every peelhouse in the country; so if we lack government, it is not for lack of governors.
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rēgnant