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Regnant vs Regrant - What's the difference?

regnant | regrant |

As an adjective regnant

is reigning, ruling; currently holding power.

As a verb regrant is

to grant (something) again or in a different way.

As a noun regrant is

the act of granting back to a former proprietor.

regnant

English

Adjective

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  • Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.
  • * 1910 , A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology , page 99
    • The people are now the State, their will is the regnant will, and that will has this characteristic — it loves principles, it hates compromises; and the principles it loves must be regulative, fit to be applied to the work and guidance of life.
  • Dominant, holding sway; holding particular power or influence.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 7:
    • The doors of his temples were kept open in time of war, the time in which the ideas of contradiction and conflict are most naturally regnant .
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    regrant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grant (something) again or in a different way.
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 371:
  • *:It was regranted to one of the new faces of the regime, a man now basking in the favour of Richard Fox and the young king: Thomas Wolsey.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
  • A renewal of a grant.
    • the regrant of a monopoly
    (Webster 1913)