Both Uses of
reign
in
David Copperfield
- How well I recollect, when I became quiet, what an unnatural stillness seemed to reign through the whole house!†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Agnes laughed again at her own penetration, and told me that if I were faithful to her in my confidence she thought she should keep a little register of my violent attachments, with the date, duration, and termination of each, like the table of the reigns of the kings and queens, in the History of England.†
Chpt 25-27
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