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interreign Now rare.|ˈɪntəreɪn|
Also 6 -regne, 6–7 -reigne, -raign(e.
[f. inter- 3 + reign, after L. interregnum (see prec.), or F. interrègne (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.); the latter may be the immediate source.]
†1. = interregnum 1. Obs.
1533Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 30 This governance..wes callit the Interregne; that is to say, the vacance betwix the deith of ane king, to the electioun of ane uthir. 1600Holland Livy iii. viii. 93 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third day of his Interreigne or Regencie for the time, createth Consuls. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. vii. (1632) 426 Sauing the small Inter-Raignes of these three Danish Kings.
2. = interregnum 2. Now unusual.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 162/2 They..confer togither how they may in this inter-reigne win the spurs, and be vtterlie deliuered from the English gouernement. 1689Def. Liberty agst. Tyrants 74 Succession was tollerated to avoid..contentions, interraigns, and other discommodities of Elections. 1775Planta in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 139 The confusions, divisions, and interreigns which frequently distracted the empire. 1828Thirlwall & Hare tr. Niebuhr's Hist. Rome (1855) I. 265 It very easily..happened that the outgoing magistrates did not complete the election, and that an interreign took place.
fig.a1854H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets iv. (1857) 116 The literary interreign between Chaucer and Spenser. |