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Definition of Regnant
1. Adjective. Exercising power or authority.
Definition of Regnant
1. a. Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.
Definition of Regnant
1. Adjective. Reigning, ruling; currently holding power. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
2. Adjective. Dominant, holding sway; holding particular power or influence. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Regnant
1. reigning [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regnant
Literary usage of Regnant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"So, the queen regnant. HPC 12. 8 Inst. 7. (q) But a king in title only, ...
r) The husband of queen regnant may be guilty of high treason against his wife. ..."
2. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"In a given melody the leading question is: What is the regnant harmony or ...
Every tone in a melody relates to a regnant harmony, and if a component, ..."
3. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"In a given melody the leading question is: What is the regnant harmony or ...
Every tone in a melody relates to a regnant harmony, and if a component, ..."
4. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"In a given melody the leading question is: What is the regnant harmony or ...
Every tone in a melody relates to a regnant harmony, and if a component, ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign, is she who holds the crown in her own
right; as the first (and perhaps the second) Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, ..."
6. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: Now First by Agnes Strickland (1854)
"QUEEN-regnant OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. CHAPTER I. Love-match of ...
THE personal life of Mary II, is the least known of all English queens-regnant. ..."
7. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1872)
"CHAPTER I. THE most distinguished name in the annals of female royalty is that
of the great Elizabeth, second queen-regnant of England. ..."
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