destinatory
destinatory noun: one who is the intended recipient of an action.
Noun
destinatory (plural destinatories)
- One who is the intended recipient of an action.
- The seeing consciousness of the actual observer or destinatory behaves as a master who wants to appropriate the art object, the text. As a matter of fact, it has every reason to behave so because the first dialectics—described in the preceding section—has found its mastery: to create a text, to...1990, Ellen Spolsky, The Uses of Adversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 95
- […] among the creditors of the destinatory. This, it need hardly be said, is an important point. To produce all these results took a long time.2003 November 13, F. W. Maitland, Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93
Forms of destinatory
| plural | destinatories |
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Questions about destinatory
- What does destinatory mean?
- Destinatory means one who is the intended recipient of an action.
- What part of speech is destinatory?
- Destinatory is a noun.
- What is the plural of destinatory?
- The plural of destinatory is destinatories.
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