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fingent

fingent adjective: given to fashioning or molding.

Adjective

fingent

  1. (rare) Given to fashioning or molding.
    • Goethe, say his censors, has, in the poem in question, placed the Christian religion, with its self-denials and its stern verities, in unfavourable contrast with […] classic heathenism […] with its throng of […] poetic phantoms that made every hill and valley and fountain, every forest-glade and...1846 February, [Thomas Carlyle?], “Miscellanea Mystica—No. II”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 27, number 158, page 155
    • He, as the Potter mouldeth on the wheel / The plastic clay, compelled the world to feel / The touch subduing of his fingent hand;1853, The Trial of the Manchester Bards, and the Bowdon Coronation, page 19

Origin of fingent

Borrowed from Latin fingēns (“shaping, fashioning”).

Questions about fingent

What does fingent mean?
Fingent means given to fashioning or molding.
What part of speech is fingent?
Fingent is an adjective.

Words near fingent in the dictionary

  1. Fingalian
  2. Fingall
  3. Fingallian
  4. fingan
  5. fingans
  6. fingent
  7. finger
  8. finger ache
  9. finger aches
  10. finger alphabet
  11. finger alphabets

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