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performants

performants is the plural of performant.

Meaning of performant

Noun

performant (plural performants)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Someone who performs something, such as a ritual; a performer.
    • As my heart bears me full witness with what unalloyed satisfaction I should have seen this last duty in your hands or in D. Giddy's, so I feel myself permitted to avow the pain, yea, the sense of shame, with which I contemplate Dr. Stock as the performant.1809 January 30, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “From His Leaving Clifton for London in 1801 to 1807, the Year of His Discovery of the Basis of the Fixed Alkalies. [Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge...

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Questions about performants

What is performants the plural of?
Performants is the plural of performant.

Words near performants in the dictionary

  1. performance-driven
  2. performances
  3. performancewear
  4. performant
  5. performantly
  6. performants
  7. performation
  8. performatism
  9. performative
  10. performative authoritarianism
  11. performative utterance

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