All 4 Uses of
reign
in
Crime and Punishment
- When I heard of all this I wanted to blow him up, too, to clear my conscience, but by that time harmony reigned between me and Pashenka, and I insisted on stopping the whole affair, engaging that you would pay.†
Chpt 2.3
- Now for the reign of reason and light…. and of will, and of strength…. and now we will see!†
Chpt 2.7
- Complete silence reigned in the room.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- Do you know, I always, from the very beginning, regretted that it wasn't your sister's fate to be born in the second or third century A.D., as the daughter of a reigning prince or some governor or pro-consul in Asia Minor.†
Chpt 6.4
Definition:
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(reign as in: She reigned over England) rule (like that of a king or queen); or the time during which one ruled