Reign vs Dominance - What's the difference?
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The exercise of sovereign power.
* Prior
The period during which a monarch rules.
The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch
The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
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Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
(physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
(biology, genetics) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.
As nouns the difference between reign and dominance
is that reign is the exercise of sovereign power while dominance is the state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.As a verb reign
is to exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch.reign
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- England prospered under Elizabeth I.'s reign .
- Saturn's sons received the threefold reign / Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
- The reign of Victoria was a long one.
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Verb
(en verb)- He reigned in an autocratic manner.
dominance
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(wikipedia dominance)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.}}