All 4 Uses of
reign
in
The Last Battle
- For then they had defeated the terrible White Witch and ended the Hundred Years of Winter, and after that they had reigned (all four of them together) at Cair Paravel, till they were no longer children but great Kings and lovely Queens, and their reign had been the golden age of Narnia.†
Chpt 4reigned = was most powerful, important, or noticeable
- ...their reign had been the golden age of Narnia.
Chpt 4 *reign = time of rule (of those kings and queens)
- ...gloom and fear reigned over Narnia.
Chpt 6 *reigned = was most powerful or noticeable
- But then it had all come; right in the end, for two mysterious children had suddenly appeared from the land beyond the world's end and had rescued him so that he came home to Narnia and had a long and prosperous reign.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(reign as in: She reigned over England) rule (like that of a king or queen); or the time during which one ruled
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(2)
(reign as in: uncertainty reigns) to be most powerful, important, or noticeable