regnant

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From Middle English regnant, reignant, from Middle French regnant, régnant, and its source, Latin rēgnāns, the present participle of regnāre.

This is his regnant category. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey
[345] To return to the personal characteristics of the two regnant powers, the Good and the Bad Spirit, the former, though vague, is yet an omnipotent tempestipresent deity, and, although passive, something more than sympathetic and benevolent. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
At this dim inceptive stage of the day Tess seemed to Clare to exhibit a dignified largeness both of disposition and physique, an almost regnant power, possibly because he knew that at that preternatural time hardly any woman so well endowed in person as she was likely to be walking in the open air within the boundaries of his horizon; very few in all England. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy

reigning, ruling

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