Regent vs Retent - What's the difference?
regent | retent |
One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
*1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
*:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.
Ruling; governing; regnant.
* Sir M. Hale
Exercising vicarious authority.
That which is retained.
* Laurens Perseus Hickok, Empirical Psychology: Or, The Science of Mind from Experience
As nouns the difference between regent and retent
is that regent is regent while retent is that which is retained.regent
English
(wikipedia regent)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
- (Milton)
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* ----retent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The retent , when known, stands before us as if reflected and inverted in a mirror, the nearest events in the past being this way the nearest as actually remembered.