https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interregnum

He's waiting to take the throne. Will Pres. Nelson be knighted once he arrives or just washed and anointed by during his induction ceremony?

define that word, right off the top of their heads?

I think I know ONE. He is, quite possibly, the most brilliant person I know. Certainly in the top five.

Mormons have their formal "apostolic interregnum" to catch up to the fancy smancy sounding "sede vacante" of the Catholics.

Can't let the Catholics have all the fun with unusual sounding terms, ya know. ;)

Well, the Catholics don't have chiasmus - but I haven't really seen Mormon defenders use the term lately either.

Regnum comes from "rex," or "king." Interregnum means "interval between kings."

I guess that makes sense, they've all been anointed as kings, priests, and essentially gods, after all.

But surely the church and the DN should have used something like "interval" instead, something without such powerful class connotations.

The editor who made that choice should be forced to play soccer against the UNM women's team.

Lottie Sempre Regina!

I blush.

in their rectum

I think that would not be "interregnum" but rather something like "intrarectum."

Sounds accurate to me.

It is an apostolic inter-rectum right now. They are all ruling the church with their lower spirited emissions.

Here's one from the early 20th century: "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914):

INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again.

This depiction sounds the most accurate for its earliest recorded use beginning in 1590.

:)



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The first "apostolic interregnum" was after Joseph Smith died and
nobody knew what to do. The quorum of apostles took over but
they didn't dare declare a president/prophet. That didn't happen
until three and a half YEARS after Joseph's death, when they'd
already moved out to Utah. After Brigham's death, John Taylor
wasn't ordained president/prophet for another three years and two
months. But then they got into the swing of things.
Wilford Woodruff was ordained a little over a year and eight
months after Taylor's death and Lorenzo Snow was ordained only
eleven days after Woodruff's death.

Now it's God's true way of deciding who the prophet is because,
hey, that's the way it's always been done around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-NqKql6t8k



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First time I ever heard/saw that word was when watching EWTN after John Paul II died in 2005. Thought it was part and parcel of the history of Latin in Catholicism. Strange that I've heard it being used in Mormonism now.