regnancy

English

Noun

regnancy (countable and uncountable, plural regnancies)

1. The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     The third and last cause, and especially operative in the writings of this author, is the presence and regnancy of a false and fantastic philosophy, yet shot through with refracted light from the not risen but rising truth […]