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appealant

appealant is the obsolete form of appellant.

Meaning of appellant

Noun

appellant (plural appellants)

  1. A litigant or party that is making an appeal in court.
    • The appellant made her submissions to the court.
  2. One who makes an earnest entreaty of any kind.
  3. (obsolete) One who challenges another to single combat.
  4. (historical) One of the clergy in the Jansenist controversy who rejected the bull Unigenitus issued in 1713, appealing to a pope "better informed", or to a general council.

See all 6 meanings of appellant

Forms of appealant

pluralappealants

Questions about appealant

What is appealant the obsolete form of?
Appealant is the obsolete form of appellant.

Words near appealant in the dictionary

  1. appeal to motive
  2. appeal to nature
  3. appeal to the stone
  4. appealability
  5. appealable
  6. appealant
  7. appealants
  8. appeale
  9. appealed
  10. appealed from Philip drunk to Philip sober
  11. appealee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appealant (page history and authors); appellant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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