Regnant

Quick meaning: Regnant is an adjective meaning Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.

Meaning

Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.

More Meanings

1. Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence.
2. (postpositive) of a monarch, ruling in one's own right; often contrasted with consort and dowager
3. (obsolete) A sovereign or ruler.

Example Sentences

Queen Elizabeth II reigned as queen regnant, unlike her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

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.

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 peel-house in the country; so if we lack government, it is not for lack of governors—[…]

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.

Word Forms

• regnants

Synonyms for regnant

Depending on context, synonyms include powerful, reigning, ruling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reigning, ruling, powerful, coregnant, dominant, sovereign.

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