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What is the adjective for rulership?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs rule and ruler which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ruled
  1. Having printed lines.
  2. (surface) Being a scroll; being such that through every point of S there is a straight line that lies on S.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The conquest of lands was not as important to him as would be the reintegration of already conquered places and, more importantly, already ruled peoples.”
      “The second exhibit is a longhand memo, two pages, on ruled paper.”
rulebound
  1. Bound by rules; rigidly uncompromising.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Classical and neoclassical methods were beginning to be seen as rulebound, overly strict, and not much like what real life is like.”
      “Most financial reporting systems are moving away from a rulebound to a principles based framework.”
      “Reality television is pretty rulebound, and it works by upsets.”
ruling
  1. That rules; predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The rebels then devised ideological weapons to be used to embarrass the ruling oligarchy.”
      “The ruling element of Scottish civilization has always been the religious one.”
      “Adolph was diametrically opposed to the ruling opinion on economic matters.”
ruleless
  1. Without rules; unregulated.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By the eighties, the ghetto had become a ruleless war zone, where people were their own worst enemies.”
      “A seemingly ruleless game, its thrust apparently is to score, win, run in one direction.”
      “The web is a terrible, confusing, violent, ruleless place that has run wild and cannot be harnessed and will never be placed under the benevolent, watchful eye of government!”
ruleful
  1. Based on rules.
rulered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ruler
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