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REGENT. 1. A ruler, a governor. The term is usually applied to one who governs a regency, or rules in the place of another.
     2. In the canon law, it signifies a master or professor of a college. Dict. du Dr. Call. h.t. 3. It sometimes means simply a ruler, director, or superintendent; as, in New York, where the board who have the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools, are called the regents of the University of the state of New York.



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JoEllen Campbell proposes that whereas Margaret could only exercise influence in the private sphere, Mariana de Austria enjoyed a public role as Queen regent during the minority of Charles II and that she, like Charles's wife, Maria Ana of Neoburg, used her influence to promote the interests of the Austrian faction at court.
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