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noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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  • c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More 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 [...]

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