Crossword-Solution: INTERREGNUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Interregnum | n. | The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. |
| Interregnum | n. | Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted. |
We have 55 clues for the answer “INTERREGNUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the time between two reigns, governments, etc. | 1 answer |
| Period of time between two successive governments | 1 answer |
| Period during which a throne is vacant | 1 answer |
| Period between kings. | 1 answer |
| writ not running | 7 answers |
| antinomianism | 7 answers |
| powerlessness | 18 answers |
| indiscipline | 21 answers |
| SCOTTISH King | 22 answers |
| inactivation | 32 answers |
| inactivating | 32 answers |
| cancelling | 32 answers |
| remanet | 36 answers |
| cold storage | 40 answers |
| tabling | 41 answers |
| Deferring | 42 answers |
| shelving | 42 answers |
| putting off | 42 answers |
| moratorium | 43 answers |
| Procrastination. | 49 answers |
| demurral | 49 answers |
| Delaying | 51 answers |
| Adjournment | 52 answers |
| tarrying | 58 answers |
| interlude | 59 answers |
| discontinuity | 64 answers |
| deferral | 65 answers |
| Hiatus | 65 answers |
| Gap | 65 answers |
| peaceful state | 65 answers |
| discontinuance | 66 answers |
| abeyance | 66 answers |
| interim | 66 answers |
| deferment | 68 answers |
| Negation | 68 answers |
| stoppage | 69 answers |
| Nullification | 69 answers |
| Suspense. | 69 answers |
| Rupture | 69 answers |
| dormancy | 70 answers |
| Postponement | 71 answers |
| Reprieve | 72 answers |
| Intermission | 74 answers |
| respite | 76 answers |
| Hesitation | 76 answers |
| Span | 77 answers |
| Cessation | 77 answers |
| Recess | 78 answers |
| Interval | 79 answers |
| Pause | 79 answers |
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Sentences with INTERREGNUM (5)
Gosse, in his article ‘On the Early Writings of Robert Browning’, in the ‘Century’ for December, 1881, has characterized this interregnum a little too contemptuously, perhaps.
She had the gift of rapid definition, and his questions as to the life she had led with the Farlows, during the interregnum between the Hoke and Murrett eras, called up before him a queer little corner of Parisian existence.
See the quadrangle in the interregnum of classes, in those two or three minutes when it is full of passing students, and we think you will admit that, if we have not made it ‘an habitation of dragons,’ we have at least transformed it into ‘a court for owls.’ Solemnity broods heavily over the enclosure; and wherever you seek it, you will find a dearth of merriment, an absence of real youthful enjoyment.
Two years had gone by since that passing; an interregnum in transportation during which Penrod's father was “thinking” (he explained sometimes) of an automobile.
They were faithful to their engagements; but when they arrived on the Roman frontier, Aurelian was already dead, the design of the Persian war was at least suspended, and the generals, who, during the interregnum, exercised a doubtful authority, were unprepared either to receive or to oppose them.
Quotes with INTERREGNUM (3)
What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan.
The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternat…
The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–2020).