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regency Noun pl -cies 1. government by a regent 2. the status of a regent 3. a period when a regent is in power [Latin regere to rule] Regency Adjective of the regency (1811–20) of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) or the styles of architecture or furniture produced during it
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He was one of those four musketeers who, under the late king, made Cardinal de Richelieu tremble, and who, during the regency, gave so much trouble to Monseigneur Mazarin. He was not in a pleasant humor; and every time I hinted that perhaps this contract was a shade too hefty for a novice he unlimbered his tongue and cursed like a bishop -- French bishop of the Regency days, I mean. The all-powerful minister, who had taken her regency from the queen, and his royalty from the king, had not been able to take a good stomach from nature. |
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