单词 | regnancy |
释义 | regnancyn. 1. The fact of reigning or ruling; power, predominance. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > superior or predominant surmouncya1400 overtyc1443 overlaikc1450 owerance1552 superiorities1558 hegemony1567 superordination1619 regnancy1650 uppermost1718 autocracy1774 dominance1823 dominancy1841 1650 Plea for Non-Subscribers App. 47 Our English Cronicles give us many presidents of Princes coming to the Crowne by the death of their respective predecessors, who (though absent at the commencing of their Title) were acknowledged, and their regnancy embraced during their absence. 1702 R. Fleming Blessedness of those who die in Lord 103 For it is from Sin, that Death is said to have received it's Power, Authority and Regnancy. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 159 The third and last cause..is the presence and regnancy of a false and fantastic philosophy. 1882 Atlantic Monthly July 35/1 Spiritual regnancy belongs to her historically, and prophetically too, I do not dispute. 1929 Jrnl. Relig. 9 505 As science retires from the place of regnancy which it has so long occupied, what will take its place? 1997 G. Jennings Aztec Autumn (1998) xii. 167 I grant..that my hoped-for overthrow of the white men's regnancy was in truth intended..as my personal revenge for the murder of my father. 2006 M. E. Shaw Buddhist Goddesses India i. i. 37 The throne of earthly and spiritual regnancy, the seat of power at the literal and figurative center of creation. 2. Psychology. In the theory of personality: the sum of all the experiences, or of the regnant processes (regnant process n. at regnant adj. and n. Compounds), that are integrated in the brain in a single moment; an instance of this.Chiefly in the work of Henry Alexander Murray (1893–1988), or with reference to this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > [noun] > dominant determiner of > totality of regnancy1936 1936 H. A. Murray in Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 15 241 Among others, the following concepts are defined and related: regnancy, need, press, want, thema, psychograph, relational. 1938 H. A. Murray Explorations in Personality ii. 45 It may prove convenient to refer to the mutually dependent processes that constitute dominant configurations in the brain as regnant processes; and, further, to designate the totality of such processes occurring during a single moment..as a regnancy. 1963 S. R. Maddi in Wepman & Heine Concepts of Personality vii. 185 Murray..with his concept of regnancy, has gone a bit further than Allport in attempting to conceptualize relevant brain processes. 1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 352/2 The authors point to Allport's biophysical traits and Murray's regnancies as illustrations of hypothetical constructs. 1988 P. J. Boxer in F. Fransella et al. Experimenting with Personal Construct Psychol. 418 (heading) Regnancy: a shadow over personal construing. 2003 N. B. Barenbaum & D. G. Winter in D. K. Freedheim Handbk. Psychol. I. ix. 196/1 Murray..introduced several concepts, such as..regnancy, ordination, and gratuity,..but these concepts were never seriously developed and elaborated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650 |
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