Exercising Power or Authority

Exercising power or authority crossword clue. An United Kingdom crossword question on 7 June 2017.

Answer: REGNANT for 7 letters or RULING for 6 lettes.

Regnant in sentences example

here was Mary, but no queen regnant had yet ruled in England; Margaret Beaufort had been passed over in favour of her son in 1485, and there was a popular impression that women were excluded from the throne.

The second half of the 15th century was destined to be the age of academies in Italy, and the regnant passion for antiquity satisfied itself with any imitation, however grotesque, of Greek or Roman institutions.