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issuant

issuant adjective: issuing, emerging.

Adjective

issuant (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Issuing, emerging.
    • It is the place that whatever goodness a damned human being has is amplified. Thus, hell is issuant from God's love. God is maximally good even to those beings that by their acquired nature must be eternally separated from heaven.2018 October 19, James M. Matarazzo Jr, The Judgment of Love: An Investigation of Salvific Judgment in Christian Eschatology, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN
  2. Issuing or emerging from something, especially from the bottom (or a division) of the field or chief, or from an ordinary.
  3. (broadly) Having only the upper half depicted, especially if because it is issuing from something (such as a division of the field). (Compare naissant.)
    • The lion is issuant from a heraldic crown of gold on which are arranged the rose (for England), the thistle (for Scotland), the leek (for Wales), and the oak-leaf (for Great Britisn as a whole).1956 August, “New Emblem for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 549

Forms of issuant

alternative formissant

Questions about issuant

What does issuant mean?
Issuant means issuing, emerging.
What part of speech is issuant?
Issuant is an adjective.

Words near issuant in the dictionary

  1. issuability
  2. issuable
  3. issuably
  4. issuance
  5. issuances
  6. issuant
  7. issue
  8. issue date
  9. issue dates
  10. issue pea
  11. issue peas

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