regnant

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    exercising power or authority

Word Origin

regnant (adj.)
"reigning, exercising authority," c. 1600, from Latin regnantem (nominative regnans) "reigning," present participle stem of regnare "to reign" (see reign). Adjective regnal (1610s) means "pertaining to a reign," especially in reference to the day or year a reign began.

Example

1. Economist takes what theory to come to regnant world .
2. Current and russian regnant elite reachs its activity kind .
3. Battle lake person 5 hotspots : yao ming whether is continuance regnant does division comparing give badier ?
4. Magical times is original period , it is childhood period of the mankind ; heroic times is the noble 's regnant times , it is young period of the mankind ; laic and regnant times is capitalist times , it is grown period of the mankind .
5. The article thinks qu qiu bai is in 20 centuries cooperate intimately with lu xun gentleman at the beginning of 30 time , overcame the wang ming that takes regnant place at that time the left course influence to literary battlefront , open up the new phase of proletarian revolution literature .

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