Synonyms:
regnant, reigning, ruling
Meaning: exercising power or authority
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
opinion, ruling
Meaning: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)
Usage examples
Have a ruling against it."
"You are disloyal subjects, who are not worth ruling over.
The old passion for ruling and influencing was all alive and happy.
Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.
The ruling passion is strong in death, they say, and my heart was dead that night.
Again, is not the passionate element wholly set on ruling and conquering and getting fame?
In the seven kingdoms of England--the Heptarchy--the Anglo-Saxons were the ruling race, rude and stubborn, and greatly attached to their gloomy northern pagan gods.
"His ruling passion is love of admiration; the little pleasing acts that attract you are so many traps set to catch the attention and the favorable opinion of those about him.
To prevent an act of cruelty, Moses struck down an Egyptian and afterward became known among men as a murderer, more notably because the man He had killed was of the ruling nation.
He was almost wholly ignorant for in the scheme of society as then constructed, the ruling few felt that he must be kept ignorant, otherwise they could not continue to hold him in bondage.