noun
Meaning 1
The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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 [...]
Meaning relationships
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