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libant

libant adjective: sipping; touching lightly.

Adjective

libant (comparative more libant, superlative most libant)

  1. (poetic) Sipping; touching lightly.
    • VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125
    • What delicate odours are blown abroad, caught by the libant wind / From the springing wheat on yonder slope, from the alden grove behind!1901 May, Eleanor Booth Simmons, “In May”, in The Bookman, volume 13, number 3, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 252

Forms of libant

comparativemore libant
superlativemost libant

Origin of libant

Borrowed from Latin lībāns, present participle of lībō (“to taste, touch”).

Questions about libant

What does libant mean?
Libant means sipping; touching lightly.
What part of speech is libant?
Libant is an adjective.

Words near libant in the dictionary

  1. Libagon
  2. libament
  3. libaments
  4. libaniferous
  5. libanomancy
  6. libant
  7. libaries
  8. libary
  9. Libas
  10. libate
  11. libated

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