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Definition of Reigning
1. Adjective. Exercising power or authority.
Definition of Reigning
1. Adjective. Currently ruling or holding a position. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of reign) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reigning
1. reign [v] - See also: reign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reigning
Literary usage of Reigning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... with more peculiar propriety, applicable to the reigning tribes ; for, I
believe, that fome of the inferior tribes have loft their nobility, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This seems to show that the land of Israel was known to the Assyrians as the land
of that king who happened to be reigning when they were first brought into ..."
3. National System of Political Economy by Friedrich List, Stephen Colwell (1856)
"THE reigning School makes no distinction, as to the effect of protective duties,
between agricultural *and manufacturing industry ; it wrongly points to the ..."
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