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/rˈeɪnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Reign v. i. (past & past part. reigned; pres. part. reigning)

To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule. "We will not have this man to reign over us." "Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?"

Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. "Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer."

To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body."

Synonyms: To rule; govern; direct; control; prevail.

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Etymology of 'Reigning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... something further had happened as affecting Rome than anything that could be understood by a man standing as I have imagined myself standing, in the official area of Byzantium. When I have said that the Byzantian civilisation seemed still to be reigning, I meant a curious impression that, in these Eastern provinces, though the Empire had been more defeated it has been less disturbed. There is a greater clarity in that ancient air; and fewer clouds of real revolution and novelty have come between ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... except to the President of the United States, a cardinal, or a reigning sovereign, presented to a man. The correct introduction of either a ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... the master jeweller and then whispered laughingly to Sue with the most artfully artless glance at me. Sue, who was a little drawn and white from her enemy neuralgia, murmured to me in French that I had the honour to render desolate Miss L——n R——l, the reigning stage beauty, who was greatly desirous of precisely that pearl and whose too vacillating admirer would doubtless enjoy his bad little quarter hour a cause de moi. I do not deny that this put a point to my satisfaction. I was, in fact, idiotically gratified—God and man ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... outset of his treacherous career, Zebek-Dorchi was sagacious enough to perceive that nothing could be gained by open declaration of hostility to the reigning prince: the choice had been a deliberate act on the part of Russia, and Elizabeth Petrowna was not the person to recall her own favors with levity or upon slight grounds. Openly, therefore, to have declared his enmity towards his relative on the throne, could have ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... earliest days his tutors had instilled into him the idea that the study of the coats of arms of reigning and noble families, together with all that they stood for, was ...

— Lafayette • Martha Foote Crow

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