Exercising power or authority.
1 The pride of lofty lineage and severe isolation was regnant over all.
2 All form of persuasion is empty except in vital association with regnant obedience.
3 Truth may ring regnant in the lines of Abt Vogler -
4 That means the empiricist temper regnant , and the rationalist temper sincerely given up.
5 It was a little court, and Lady Mabel played the queen regnant there.
6 Now, for the first time, it would seat a queen regnant .
7 The act clarified the ambiguity of Mary's status as queen regnant .
8 Optimism has always been the regnant DOCTRINE in european philosophy.
9 So they made him Sultan, and he became King regnant .
10 The picture of Caliban sprawling in the ooze, brute instincts regnant , is complete and admirable.
11 Queen regnant she, and so shall be for aye
12 Per me reges regnant et potentes decernunt justitiam.
13 All around her was wave rushing upon wave, and above her blue heaven and regnant moon.
14 A conscience long dormant is now become regnant .
15 Hence came schisms and heresies, which would never come to be, were charity regnant and alive.
16 And the course of her life should be like that of the sun, beautiful, glorious, regnant !
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