regnant
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle French regnant 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.
- 1910, A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology, page 99
- Dominant, holding sway; holding particular power or influence. [from 17th c.]
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 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.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 7:
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regnant
- Present participle of regnar.
[edit] Latin
[edit] Verb
rēgnant
- third-person plural present active indicative of rēgnō
