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interregnum

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[ US /ˌɪntɝˈɹɛɡnəm/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪntəɹɪɡnˈʌm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the time between two reigns, governments, etc.

How To Use interregnum In A Sentence

  • The English Renaissance, begun haltingly under Queen Elizabeth, reborn under Inigo Jones but repressed during the interregnum, now found its feet. British architecture: the baroque in Britain
  • I had avidly followed the space program for two years, having first become interested in it (and all things astronomical) during the interregnum between Gemini and Apollo.
  • It's as simple as this: we're in an interregnum, that brief period of time before some bright young hacker or some clever company solves this problem definitively.
  • The presidential interregnum is a recurrent period of danger. The Founders’ Great Mistake
  • This Olympian view of custodianship was vehemently rejected by Mercouri, who in 1981 became her country's minister of culture (a post she held, save a four-year interregnum, until her death in 1994). Grading the New Acropolis
  • The present situation constitutionally is more of an incommodious interregnum. Archive 2009-05-01
  • After a short interregnum, May Day was once again the centre of worldwide protest after the First World War.
  • When the king died and his successor was not on the spot to assume the reins of government, the archimagus was regent during the interregnum, as, for instance, between the death of Nabopolassar and the accession of Nebuchadnezzar. [ A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
  • Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman.
  • On this mysterious chastisement, which some think consisted in an attack of the madness called lycanthropy, as well as on the interregnum which it must have caused, Babylonian annals are silent: clever hypotheses have been devised either to explain this silence, or in scanning documents in order to find in them traces of the wanted interregnum The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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