What's the difference between regal and regency?

Regal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.
  • (n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
  • (2) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
  • (3) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
  • (4) Once humans have gained "total mastery over morphological genetics", post-60,000 years from now, we'll be tweaking our children's DNA so that they're born with straight noses, regal lines and perfect facial symmetry.
  • (5) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
  • (6) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
  • (7) An event like the Golden Globes puts movie stars in a regal position.
  • (8) "He regaled me with some anecdotes of BBC inefficiency.
  • (9) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
  • (10) The top five cinema chains – Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment – have all dropped plans to screen the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter .
  • (11) But reason will be no barrier to more of the sort of visionless and destructive dogma the Australian prime minister regaled the loggers with in Parliament House this week.
  • (12) He said he was continuing to try to ease tense relations with large cinema chains, such as AMC and Regal Entertainment, which had refused to screen The Interview after the hackers made threats of violence .
  • (13) An hour later, Obama and Trump will be joined by Vice-President Joe Biden, his successor Mike Pence and their spouses for a cup of coffee or tea in the White House’s regal Blue Room.
  • (14) As the wine flowed Humphrey, who had lived all his life in Oxford and knew all the skeletons in all the cupboards of the city, regaled us with increasingly scandalous stories of town and gown in his wonderfully clear, enthusiastic - and carrying - voice.
  • (15) At times Clinton projected an almost regal bearing.
  • (16) At a rally with her husband in Spartanburg, South Carolina, last weekend, she regaled the crowd with nothing more revelatory than the promise that her husband “will be the best president”.
  • (17) Throughout the convention, relatives and business associates lined up to regale the audience with tales of the nominee’s financial acumen.
  • (18) In the formal photograph, King Hamad was a diplomatic distance away from the Queen, though that was because the seating appeared to be arranged on length of regal service.
  • (19) No one could’ve been more suitable for this role than he, who bubbled away his evenings in Simpson’s in the Strand or the Cafe Royal, who spent royally when he had money and borrowed regally when he didn’t, and whose contacts with the working class – with the exception of servants – were at once amatory and pecuniary.
  • (20) December 24, 2016 William Regal (@RealKingRegal) Sad to hear of the passing of Rick Parfitt of Status Quo.Wether you liked them or not,if you are British you knew them.They had a great run.

Regency


Definition:

  • (a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
  • (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
  • (a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
  • (2) The variation in the breastfeeding period between the regencies is a matter of further investigation.
  • (3) They live in a Regency house in Brighton and must be reasonably well off.
  • (4) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
  • (5) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
  • (6) A microscopic study in 1975 and 1977 revealed unusual cytoplasmic vacuoles in the sperm of "Regency" prompting us to send semen to A. J. Luedke, USDA-ARS, Denver, Colorado, USA, to attempt virus isolation.
  • (7) Pyongyang, a film commissioned by New Regency pictures and set to star Steve Carrell playing a character accused of espionage by the regime, will no longer go into production, according to deadline.com .
  • (8) Considerable and rather unexpected differences existed between regencies.
  • (9) Regency, Victorian and Edwardian have resonance, but trying to crystallise her decades into an epoch will cause furious debate.
  • (10) In the regencies along the south and north coast of East Java 90%, respectively 94% of children aged 19-24 months were still breastfed; in Sidoarjo, a relative 'surplus' area, the corresponding figure was 73% and on the island of Madura 51%.
  • (11) For many years they lived in a handsome regency house near Frome in Somerset.
  • (12) In 1985, the disease had spread to 26 of 27 Provinces and 160 of 300 regencies or municipalities.
  • (13) "There is already a system in place for the Dalai Lama's regency.
  • (14) The second charge alleges that between September 2005 and September 2006 Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £12,925, purportedly for renting a property in Regency Street, London, when he was in fact the owner of the property.
  • (15) For Mike Hussey, director of Land Securities' London , who was managing the development at the time, that meant an architect working in traditional or classical styles, such as Quinlan Terry, one of the princes' favourite architects, who specialises in building grand houses in historical modes: Ionic, Gothick, Corinthian, Regency, but definitely not "ultra-modern" as Nouvel proposed.
  • (16) Build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for Jon Favreau “It’s very easy for all of us to go down the rabbit hole … then you waste all your time and energy on the Trump tweet of the day, and you don’t build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for.” In Baltimore, between closed-door panel sessions, Democrats milling about the lobby of the Hyatt Regency were mindful of the constant media churn surrounding Trump.
  • (17) In this study an intervention alternative was carried out with weekly chloroquine prophylaxis to children below 10 years of age in 3 malaria areas of central Java, namely the villages Bedono Kluwung and Kalikutes in Purworejo Regency and Pablengan in Karang Anyar Regency.
  • (18) I've done a regency print that I've also developed into a jacquard in royal blue.
  • (19) Legislation will amend laws including the Bill of Rights 1688, the Act of Settlement 1700, the Act of Union with Scotland 1706 and the Coronation Oaths Act 1688, Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Union with Ireland Act 1800, the Accession Declaration Act 1910 and the Regency Act 1937.
  • (20) He is understood to have bought a Regency townhouse in Edinburgh, and apartments in London and New York.