Reigns Synonyms and Antonyms

The act of exercising controlling power or the condition of being so controlled
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sways
  2. rules
  3. masteries
  4. controls
  5. commands
  6. dominations
Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rules
  2. prevails
  3. predominates
  4. governs
  5. dominates
  6. administers
  7. influences
  8. preponderates
  9. commands
  10. controls
Antonyms:
  1. submits
  2. serves
To exercise the authority of a sovereign
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sways
  2. rules
  3. governs
Royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sovereignties

Reigns Sentence Examples

  • York Road recalls the existence of a palace of the archbishops of York, occasionally occupied by them between the reigns of Edward IV.

  • The worc nepotism acquired new significance in the reigns of Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII.

  • At the beginning of the 19th century it did not contain 20,000 inhabitants, and its real advance began with the reigns of Kings Frederick and William I., who exerted themselves in every way to improve and beautify it.

  • It is rough in form and the author shows no power of discriminating between important and unimportant events; yet the chronicle is an excellent authority for the history of Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III.

  • He published Lives of Foreign Statesmen (1830), The Greek and the Turk (1853), and Reigns of Louis X VIII.

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