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precant

precant noun: a person who prays.

Noun

precant (plural precants)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A person who prays.
    • The attempt to answer this argument by admitting its invalidity relatively to God, but asserting the efficacy of prayer relatively to the pray-er or precant himself, is merely staving off the objection a single step.1854, “Notes on Luther's table talk”, in Professor Shedd, editor, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 5
    Synonyms:
    worshipper

Synonyms of precant

Forms of precant

pluralprecants

Questions about precant

What does precant mean?
Precant means a person who prays.
What part of speech is precant?
Precant is a noun.
What is the plural of precant?
The plural of precant is precants.

Words near precant in the dictionary

  1. precanine
  2. precanines
  3. precanning
  4. precanon
  5. precanonical
  6. precant
  7. precants
  8. precanyon
  9. precap
  10. precapillary
  11. precapitalism

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