Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or dignity of a regent, especially of a vicegerent, or one who governs for a king; regency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a regent; regency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office of a
regent ;regency .
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Examples
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He resigned his regentship in 1531, and in 1532 became tutor to Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd earl of Cassilis, with whom he returned to Scotland about the beginning of 1537.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Feeling ran riot; there was little regard for the regentship of the Prince; true to itself to the end, the Stuart cause was dying in a babel of broken counsels.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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