regent
noun
a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
regentship
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a word derived from
regent.
Example Sentences
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But it was her collaboration in the '50s with producer/manager Norman Granz on a benchmark series of "songbook" albums that gave Fitzgerald the musical regentship that never passed from her.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
If York have ill demean'd himself in France, Then let him be denay'd the regentship.
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
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.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
