Devolution and Regency

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.

noun

• The period of time during which a regent governs.
• The period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity.
• The office of a regent. .

• (a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
• (a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom or other disability.
• (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.