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practisants

practisants is the plural of practisant.

Meaning of practisant

Noun

practisant (plural practisants)

  1. One who practises something; a practitioner.
    • A Pope who asked you the hour and the date and the place of your birth, drew diagrams on paper, and then told you your secret vices and virtues, was a practisant of arts unholy1904, Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh
  2. (obsolete) An agent or confederate in treachery.
    • Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about practisants

What is practisants the plural of?
Practisants is the plural of practisant.

Words near practisants in the dictionary

  1. practicumers
  2. practicums
  3. practis'd
  4. practisable
  5. practisant
  6. practisants
  7. practise
  8. practise what one preaches
  9. practiseable
  10. practised
  11. practisedly

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