单词 | regentship |
释义 | regentshipn. The office or position of regent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > regent > [noun] > position of protectorship1456 regentship1579 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ii. 120 The gouernment of a litle sonne whom she had left, to which regentship [Fr. gouuernement, It. gouerno] aspired..the Marquis of Saluzze. 1597 H. Broughton Epist. Learned Nobility 31 He was then sixteene yeares olde: and so he should be about foure at his fathers death: & a regentship of eleauen yeares should goe betwixt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 107 If Yorke haue ill demean'd himselfe in France, Then let him be denay'd the Regent-ship . View more context for this quotation 1659 T. Palmer Little View of Old World i. 114 But when Edward was dead, Harold refused the Regentship, and crowned himself King of England. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Regentship, power of governing; deputed authority. 1783 G. Wallace Thoughts Origin of Feudal Tenures iii. 142 (note) No tax had been imposed during his Regentship. 1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 338/1 The Liberal ladies of Germany..seem to consider this act as his chief recommendation to the regentship. 1885 Nevada State Jrnl. 15 Apr. 3/2 I was not able even to command my old and favourite foreign committeeship, or my former Smithsonian regentship. 1937 G. H. Macurdy Vassal-Queens iii. 37 The date..refers to the years of Antonia Tryphaena's regentship for Polemo. 1971 Classical Q. New Ser. 21 129 What was far from irrelevant was the regentship, for the regent manipulated the kings. 2000 Africa News (Nexis) 16 Nov. His coronation effectively terminates the regentship of Princess Mopelola Osunrayi who has held forte since the demise of her father. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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