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Trance vs Reign - What's the difference?

trance | reign |

As nouns the difference between trance and reign

is that trance is while reign is the exercise of sovereign power.

As a verb reign is

to exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch.

trance

English

(wikipedia trance)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) traunce, from (etyl)

Alternative forms

* traunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dazed or unconscious condition.
  • (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 10
  • And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance .
  • * Spenser
  • My soul was ravished quite as in a trance .
  • (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
  • (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
  • (uncountable) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
  • (obsolete) A tedious journey.
  • (Halliwell)
    Descendants
    * French:

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (tranc)
  • To entrance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And there I left him tranced .
  • (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Trance the world over.
  • * Tennyson
  • When thickest dark did trance the sky.
  • (obsolete) To pass; to travel.
  • (Webster 1913)

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    reign

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The exercise of sovereign power.
  • England prospered under Elizabeth I.'s reign .
  • * Prior
  • Saturn's sons received the threefold reign / Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
  • The period during which a monarch rules.
  • The reign of Victoria was a long one.
  • The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
  • (Spenser)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch
  • He reigned in an autocratic manner.