regence
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See also: régence
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]regence
- (obsolete) rule
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- massacres
Of spiritual Affidavit- makers,
That swore to any human regence
Oaths of supremacy and allegiance
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[edit]References
[edit]“regence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.