Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An interregnum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An interregnum.
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- noun obsolete An
interregnum .
Etymologies
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Compare French interrègne.
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Examples
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Probably delivered in the interreign and civil war at Pekah's death; for Ho 7: 7, "all their kings ... fallen," refers to the murder of
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Thus Holland wrote ‘cirque’, but we ‘circus’; ‘cense’, but we ‘census’; ‘interreign’, but we ‘interregnum’; Sylvester ‘cest’, but we ‘cestus’; ‘quirry’, but we ‘equerry’; ‘colosse’, but we still ‘colossus’; Golding ‘ure’, but we
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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-- [MS. Alternative reading.] _Yet through this murky interreign of Woe_.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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