Regency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REGENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the office of a regent
• the office of or period of government by a regent
• a commission acting as regent.
• the particular period of a regency, especially (in Britain) from 1811 to 1820 and (in France) from 1715 to 1723
• status or period of office of a regent
• the period of time during which a regent governs
• the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III\'s periods of insanity
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to or denoting British architecture, clothing, and furniture of the Regency or, more widely, of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Regency style was contemporary with the Empire style and shares many of its features: elaborate and ornate, it is generally neoclassical, with a generous borrowing of Greek and Egyptian motifs.
• The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
• Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
• A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king\'s minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.

Words related to REGENCY

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How to use REGENCY in a sentence

• The Council scouted the idea of another regency, and intimated plainly their intention to seek an adult Head of the Government.
• All the moderation of the new regency could not restrain the manifestation of that just displeasure which this persecuted people felt against their oppressors.
• Count Thurn, regardless of the prohibition, called the delegates together and read to them the answer, which the king had not addressed to them but to the council of regency.
• He knew so well that his interests centred in England that he declined the offer of the French regency on the death of Blanche of Castile.
• Morton held the regency till 1578, when he was forced to resign, and the young king, now twelve years old, became the nominal ruler.
• Treaty of friendship between the French nation and the regency of Tunis.
• These would be sufficient for a regency, and could form a court, or council, to deliberate and decide about measures of legislation and administration.
• This Board will be a substitute for the Regency, but not so good.
• The other parts of the church were built before the regency of the duke of Bedford.
• It is a life-size painting of a beautiful woman, in the queer, scant costume of the regency.
• I suppose a regency will be established, and if it consists of a plurality of members, it will, probably, be peaceable.
• The consul occupied himself the next day in procuring a passage for us on board a vessel of the Regency which was going to Marseilles.
• They were furnished in the time of the Regency, Jane said, and it was easy to recognize the rich, ornate extravagance of that period.
• In the beginning of July the king embarked for Holland, after having appointed a regency to govern the kingdom in his absence.
• King George, having appointed a regency, embarked at Greenwich on the third day of June, and landing in Holland on the seventh, set out on his journey to Hanover.
• SETTLEMENT OF A REGENCY IN CASE OF A MINOR SOVEREIGN.
• On that day Pitt introduced his plan of a restricted regency.
• It has been seen that at the time the regency bill was discussed in the British parliament, the Irish were in favour of the Prince of Wales.
• After his appointment to the regency Don Miguel paid a visit to England, where he was treated by the nobility in general with high respect.
• Florine had cured him of his taste for the Regency style of thing.
• His violence in the course of the Regency debates had produced strong disapproval in the public, and downright consternation in his own party.
• Nominally he had been king of France since 1642, when he was only five years old, but it was not until 1658 that the control of affairs by the regency came to an end.
• But he did propose certain restrictions on the regency in order that the king, should he recover his reason, might without difficulty resume his power.
• Since that date every step in the adoption of modern methods was taken during the reign or regency of that remarkable woman, which dated from 1861 to 1908.
• She had instead to admit a joint motherhood, which in a few years led to a joint regency.
• At the age of eighteen, Christina was declared free to govern the kingdom by herself, without the aid of a regency.
• Lord Thurlow had been universally charged with carrying on an intrigue with the Opposition, for the purpose of continuing in office under the regency.
• These outrages were terminated by a proclamation from the soldiery that Ivan and Peter should be joint sovereigns under the regency of Sophia.
• By the will of the dying monarch, the regency, during the minority of the child, was placed in the hands of the youthful mother, the princess Helene.

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