different between regnant vs regrant
regnant
English
Etymology
From French régnant and its source, the present participle of Latin regn?re.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????n?nt/
Adjective
regnant (not comparable)
- Reigning, ruling; currently holding power. [from 15th c.]
- 1910, A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology, page 99
- 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.
- 1910, A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology, page 99
- Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence. [from 17th c.]
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 7:
- 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.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 7:
- (postpositive) of a monarch, ruling in one's one right; often contrasted with consort and dowager
- Queen Elizabeth II reigns as queen regnant, unlike her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Derived terms
- queen regnant
- empress regnant
See also
- consort
- dowager
- queen consort
- queen dowager
Noun
regnant (plural regnants)
- (obsolete) 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 peelhouse in the country; so if we lack government, it is not for lack of governors.
Derived terms
- empress regnant
- queen regnant
Anagrams
- Gantner
Catalan
Verb
regnant
- present participle of regnar
Latin
Verb
r?gnant
- third-person plural present active indicative of r?gn?
regnant From the web:
regrant
English
Etymology
From re- +? grant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????nt/
Verb
regrant (third-person singular simple present regrants, present participle regranting, simple past and past participle regranted)
- (transitive) To grant (something) again or in a different way.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 371:
- It was regranted to one of the new faces of the regime, a man now basking in the favour of Richard Fox and the young king: Thomas Wolsey.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 371:
Noun
regrant (plural regrants)
- The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
- A renewal of a grant.
- the regrant of a monopoly
Anagrams
- Gartner, granter
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