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fugient

fugient adjective: fleeing.

Adjective

fugient (comparative more fugient, superlative most fugient)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Fleeing.
    • Thus, alongside of the church militant with its prisons, dragonnades, and inquisition methods, we have the church fugient, as one might call it, with its hermitages, monasteries, and sectarian organizations, both churches pursuing the same object—to unify the life, and simplify the spectacle...1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […]...

Forms of fugient

comparativemore fugient
superlativemost fugient

Origin of fugient

From Latin fugientem, present participle of fugo (“flee”).

Questions about fugient

What does fugient mean?
Fugient means fleeing.
What part of speech is fugient?
Fugient is an adjective.

Words near fugient in the dictionary

  1. fugichnial
  2. fugichnion
  3. fugie
  4. fugie warrant
  5. fugie warrants
  6. fugient
  7. fugies
  8. Fugio
  9. Fugio cent
  10. Fugio cents
  11. Fugios

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