Regnant

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɹɛɡnÉ™nt/

Origin

From Middle French regnant and its source, the present participle of Latin regnāre.

Full definition of regnant

Adjective

1. Reigning, ruling; currently holding power. from 15th c.
• 1910, A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology, page 99The 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.
2. Dominant, holding sway; holding 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.----