Ruling
['ruːlɪŋ] or ['rulɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rule
(a.) Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.
(a.) Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen.
(n.) The act of one who rules; ruled lines.
(n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Governing, controlling.[2]. Predominant, prevailing, prevalent.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Governing, reigning, controlling, masterful, predominant, regulating,prevalent
ANT:Obeying, yielding, subservient
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Examples
- You have to imagine, then, that there are two ruling powers, and that one of them is set over the intellectual world, the other over the visible. Plato. The Republic.
- Brahminism had long since ousted Buddhism from India, but the converts to Islam were still but a small ruling minority in the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now that was tact, for two of the ruling foibles of the masculine mind were touched. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And if this small ruling class have wisdom, then the whole State will be wise. Plato. The Republic.
- In that year Cyrus was ruling over an empire that reached from the boundaries of Lydia to Persia and perhaps to India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the ruling class do not want remedies; they care only for money, and are as careless of virtue as the poorest of the citizens. Plato. The Republic.
- His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those revolutionists who see the misery of the country as a deliberate and fiendish plot overestimate the bad will, the intelligence and the singleness of purpose in the ruling classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Or did he only seem to be a member of the ruling body, although in truth he was neither ruler nor subject, but just a spendthrift? Plato. The Republic.
- Again, is not the passionate element wholly set on ruling and conquering and getting fame? Plato. The Republic.
- The ruling passion! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- To attempt to determine the end of man apart from a knowledge of the ruling end which gives law and unity to nature is impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A society marked off into classes need he specially attentive only to the education of its ruling elements. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Would he allow imitation to be the ruling principle of his life, as if he had nothing higher in him? Plato. The Republic.
- Rome in those days seemed to the Carthaginians a far less serious threat than the possibility of another Alexander the Great ruling Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Tod