interregnum

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But when Burns visited it there was a kind of interregnum, and, little though he or they guessed it, none of the celebrities he met possessed genius comparable to his own.

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  1. noun The interval of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of a successor.
  2. noun A period of temporary suspension of the usual functions of government or control.
  3. noun A gap in continuity.

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  • Starting from founder member Hedgewar and leading upto KS Sudarshan the present incumbent, the interregnum was filled by Golwalkar, —  Kafila
  • We are in the middle of the interregnum, the period of time between the election of a new President of the United States and his inauguration. —  Global Paradigms
  • As a national security council officer watching the dynamic at work as Nixon rewarded African states where he felt well-treated during his interregnum, and ignored those where he felt slighted, I noted in my diary with some exasperation: —  NYT > Opinion
  • Unlike the late 1970s during the Gerald Ford interregnum, when a helpless government was reduced to sloganeering with WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons, the administration that takes over in ten days has a multitude of plans and proposals for economic stimulus, but with each day, there is mounting anxiety over what kind and how much and for how long. —  The Moderate Voice
  • The stunning defeat of the financial bailout bill has exposed the weakness of the system at its moment of maximum vulnerability, in the quasi-interregnum of the weeks immediately before and after a presidential election. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
 

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  1. Latin : inter-, inter- + rēgnum, reign; see reign.

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  1. from Latin interregnum, from inter, between, + regnum, reign: see reign. Cf. interreign.
 

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/ɪntərˈrɛgnəm/
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