reigned
RAYND/ɹeɪnd/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of reign.
Elizabeth I reigned during a golden age of English drama and poetry.
A tense silence reigned in the courtroom as the verdict was read.
Note
A regular past form: one -ed spelling serves both she reigned and she has reigned, and the perfect takes have. The thing to watch is the preposition. A ruler reigns over a country, as David reigned over all Israel in the King James Bible of 1611, a phrase the Revised Standard Version of 1952 kept unchanged. Dropping over, as in a king reigned the land, is rare and nonstandard.
reigned is a form of reign
reign, verb: To hold supreme authority over a realm as its king or queen. Full entry
- Spelling
- reign → reigned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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