Interregnum

Word INTERREGNUM
Character 11
Hyphenation in ter reg num
Pronunciations /ˌɪntəɹˈɹɛɡnəm/

Definitions and meanings of "Interregnum"

What do we mean by interregnum?

The interval of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of a successor. noun

A period of temporary suspension of the usual functions of government or control. noun

A gap in continuity. noun

An intermission between reigns; an interval of time elapsing between the end of one reign and the beginning of the next, as in the case of a disputed or uncertain succession. noun

Hence An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence. noun

The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. noun

Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted. noun

The period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign. noun

A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted. noun

An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence. noun

The time between two reigns, governments, etc. noun

The period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign.

A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted.

An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence.

The region between the base of the penis and the top of the scrotum. A genital hinterland; small, mostly overlooked, yet not insignificant spot. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Interregnum

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The word "interregnum" in example sentences

The presidential interregnum is a recurrent period of danger. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Are there again interregnum periods between the ages as between gold and silver? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Seriously, I am sorry that you are in interregnum ... ❋ Newmania (2007)

VINCI: Well, we are technically now in what is called the interregnum, which is the period in between two reigns. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The death of this pope, ushers in a period known as the interregnum, or between the reigns. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This is called the interregnum, the period between the popes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What begins now -- we are in what is called the interregnum period, the period after which the pope has died and a new pope has not yet been -- been named. ❋ Unknown (2005)

COOPER: And of course now, we are in what is called the interregnum, the period between the popes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

ZAHN (voice over): Now that Pope John Paul II has died and official process, know as interregnum, or between the reigns, has begun. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Juliet of one season is not the Nurse or the Lady Capulet of the next; a considerable time passes before there is such a shift of characters, and she acts nothing at all during the interregnum, which is spent in vain attempts to get the Juliet parts, met with cruel rebuffs on the score of age. ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)

The 'interregnum' however - Blair remaining PM until June 27 - smacks again of a slow move to a presidential system. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I have before mentioned that the men are domestic tyrants, considering them as fathers, brothers, or husbands; but there is a kind of interregnum between the reign of the father and husband which is the only period of freedom and pleasure that the women enjoy. ❋ Unknown (2003)

As for the notable events of the "interregnum" as I have called it, which had their culmination on March 31st, I shall maintain a discreet and non-partisan silence; for I suspect that our description of those events would range all the way from calamitous to miraculous. ❋ Unknown (1958)

They formed a kind of interregnum in my life, quite different from anything that had gone before and perhaps from anything that is to come, and they taught me things that I could not have learned in any other way. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Bismarck had only just been converted to colonial expansion, and found, no doubt, what he must have considered as the "interregnum" of King Leopold an excellent solution of his difficulties. ❋ Emile Cammaerts (1915)

It was long after the Mardi Gras of the thirties, and long, long before the Mardi Gras of to-day, a kind of interregnum, that the young fashionable men were turning into a festival. ❋ Unknown (1912)

But when Burns visited it there was a kind of interregnum, and, little though he or they guessed it, none of the celebrities he met possessed genius comparable to his own. ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

A kind of interregnum that we often see in the twilight of empires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh [darling], your [interregnum] is terribly sweaty this evening, would you like a [tissue]? ❋ Djeph (2022)

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