Both Uses of
reign
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, when they were sometimes in danger of trouble on account of their zeal against popery.†
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- The family continued all of the Church of England till about the end of Charles the Second's reign, when some of the ministers that had been outed for nonconformity holding conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin and Josiah adhered to them, and so continued all their lives: the rest of the family remained with the Episcopal Church.†
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