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Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Reigning, ruling

   Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.

2. 2

   Dominant

   Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence.

   • 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.
3. 3

   of a monarch, ruling in one's own right

   of a monarch, ruling in one's own right; often contrasted with consort and dowager

   • Queen Elizabeth II reigned as queen regnant, unlike her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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   1. 4

      A sovereign or ruler.

      • 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 neighborhood

• neighborconsort
• neighbordowager
• neighborqueen consort
• neighborqueen dowager