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precants

precants is the plural of precant.

Meaning of precant

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

Questions about precants

What is precants the plural of?
Precants is the plural of precant.

Words near precants in the dictionary

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

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