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1. regnant - Noun
2. regnant - Adjective
3. regnant - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.
Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent.
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... to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements.
Isabella was said to resemble her father, and not her mother, queen regnant of Navarre, a plump, plain woman.
The Imperial House of Japan, p. 56. She was the one empress regnant in Japan's history to have inherited her title from another empress regnant rather than from a male predecessor.
Arppakhu is listed as regnant on two other inscriptions, but he did not succeed Kuprlli.
While most monarchs have been male, many female monarchs also have reigned in history; the term queen regnant refers to a ruling monarch, while a queen consort refers to the wife of a reigning king.
She continued to regard herself as queen regnant all her life.