regnancy

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Noun

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regnancy (countable and uncountable, plural regnancies)

  1. The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
    • c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More
      The third and last cause, and especially operative in the writings of this author, is the presence and regnancy of a false and fantastic philosophy, yet shot through with refracted light from the not risen but rising truth []