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regardant

/ɹɪˈɡɑːdn̩t/

regardant adjective: with the head turned toward the back of the body.

regardant: with the head turned toward the back of the body
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Adjective

regardant (not comparable)

  1. With the head turned toward the back of the body.
    • The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 25
    • The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480
  2. Watchful, attentive; contemplative.
    • To horse, to horse: thus once Eurydice, / With looks regardant, did the Thracian gaze […].1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, II.3
    • He stood regardant for a moment.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 84

Examples of regardant in a sentence

  • I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
  • And now others, casually regardant, passed the place in automobiles ….1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 183:

Forms of regardant

alternative formreguardant

Origin of regardant

From Middle English regardant, from Anglo-Norman regardant, Middle French regardant.

Words formed from regardant

Questions about regardant

What does regardant mean?
Regardant means with the head turned toward the back of the body.
How do you use regardant in a sentence?
I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.
What part of speech is regardant?
Regardant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce regardant?
Regardant is pronounced /ɹɪˈɡɑːdn̩t/ (UK).

Words near regardant in the dictionary

  1. Regan
  2. regard
  3. regard ring
  4. regard rings
  5. regardable
  6. regardant
  7. regarde
  8. regarded
  9. regarder
  10. regarders
  11. regardes

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