The people are now the State, their will is the regnant will, and that will has this characteristic — it loves principles, it hates compromises; and the principles it loves must be regulative, fit to be applied to the work and guidance of life.
dominant Dominant, holding sway; holding particular power or influence. (defdate)
2010, (w), Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 7:
The doors of his temples were kept open in time of war, the time in which the ideas of contradiction and conflict are most naturally regnant.
puhekieltä A (l) or (l).
Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot (chapter VI)
Here are two sovereigns in the land, a regnant and a claimant - that is enough of one good thing - but if any one wants more, he may find a king in every peelhouse in the country; so if we lack government, it is not for lack of governors.