This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. regnant (REG-nuhnt) adjective
1. Ruling (reigning, as opposed to simply having the title by marriage). 2. Predominant; widespread. [From Latin regnare (to reign). Ultimately from Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule) that's also the source of regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, and surge.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=thesaurus -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "Aylmer saw a queen regnant as two persons, one private and one public." Julia M Walker; Dissing Elizabeth; Duke University Press; 2004. We thank these sponsors for their support of this newsletter: Want a professional writer's help? Critiques, help with writer's block. Fiction, nonfiction, business writing. Free newsletter. http://RoySorrels.com Subscribe to http://delanceyplace.com -- a carefully selected non-fiction book excerpt free to your email each day. It's the thinking person's daily quote. ............................................................................ Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. -Colette, writer (1873-1954) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/regnant.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/regnant.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/regnant.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
