Regnant

/ˈɹɛɡnənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Reigning, ruling; currently holding power..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

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—[…]

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