It only shows how very little in former days the people expected of a regnant king.
There are many instances in history of regnant queens who loved and yet whose love was not dissociated from the policy of state.
As a simple, clear revelation of the character and will of the Divine Ruler, present and regnant in all life, the Old Testament is surpassed by only one other volume, and that is its complement, the New.
In place of the very words of Virgil, Ubi luctus et pavor et plurima mortis imago, he wrote Ubi luctus regnant et pavor.
There grew naturally in the atmosphere of the court of a regnant queen, an affected, flattering, and inflated language, known to us as Euphuism.
She was a royal lady, a regnant queen: her hands held a golden sceptre, and her feet pressed a silver footstool.
It has been already stated that by Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, the poet intended the person of Elizabeth in herregnant grandeur: Britomartis represents her chastity.
His face, far from what is called handsome, had a certain almost grandeur in it, owed mainly to the dominant forehead, and the regnant life in the eyes.
All around her was wave rushing upon wave, and above her blue heaven and regnant moon.
His long smouldering ambition, nursed and fed of late, had now flamed into a regnant passion, and the cooler, more wary, unscrupulousness of the younger man looked with repugnance upon the blind fury of the Duke that was to be.
Then did joy Run like a sunbeam over the land, and joy Rule in the stout heart of a regnant Queen.
Heir to herself, a self-succeeding queen, Still regnant on life's throne when life is o'er.
Throned upon higher worlds, she reigneth still; And here shall rise unto the regnant place, When rolls the stone upon the image doomed, When God hath fanned with fire His threshing floor.
A son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Regnantde Lobkowitz," announced (second series) on October 28 by Mollo.
The queens regnant and dowager accepted an invitation from Count Moltke to witness the ceremony from his house, which faced the site of the statue.
She assumed the title of Queen-regnant of England and Ireland.
Certainly nothing remained, regnant and recognised in the cities, to suggest a repugnance to the summer campaigns, or that other nations had their rights.
In the regnant silence she rose, laid aside her book, softly opened the door, and stepped as softly into the narrow passage.
Came trampling and singing and clapping, promising welcome to ineffable glories, ravishing the heart in its anguish to conceive of a regnant presence in the midst.
Ninety millions, with suffused eyes, watch this vanishing remnant of a race, whose regnant majesty inspires at the very moment it succumbs to the iconoclasm of civilization.
The stormy billows heave and dip, The wild winds veer and play; But, regnant all, God's stately ship Is steering home this way!
Truth may ring regnant in the lines of Abt Vogler-- "And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days?
There was something regnant in her, while, too, there was something sumptuous and sensuous and physically thrilling to the senses.
The lyric mood isregnant here, in a melody that, springing from distant soil, speaks straight to every heart, above all with the concluding refrain.
Italy was so long regnant in music that she seems even yet its chosen land.
I heard, in darkness, on my bed, The beating of my heart To servant feet and regnant head A common life impart, By the liquid cords, in every thread Unbroken as they start.
His soul was like an empty darkened room, Through which strange pictures pass from the outer world; While regnant will lay passive and looked on.
The astronomers of still later days investigating the statelier motions of stellar systems find the Newtonian law regnant everywhere among the stars where our most powerful telescopes have as yet reached.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regnant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
