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remittant

remittant is the alternative form of remittent.

Meaning of remittent

Adjective

remittent (comparative more remittent, superlative most remittent)

  1. Alternately increasing and decreasing in severity or intensity.
    • A remittent fever is when at certain periods the fever is more violent than at others, but the patient never intirely free from it.1761, Hugh Smith, The Family Physician, London, p. 3, footnote
  2. (rare) Of or pertaining to remission of the severity of symptoms.
    • […] the long, long fever of life, which with him never knew a remittent moment, had robbed him of that which every man has a right to expect, some pleasure in the course of his existence.1875, Charlotte Riddell, chapter 14, in The Uninhabited House

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Forms of remittant

comparativemore remittant
superlativemost remittant

Words formed from remittant

Questions about remittant

What is remittant the alternative form of?
Remittant is the alternative form of remittent.

Words near remittant in the dictionary

  1. remittance man
  2. remittance men
  3. remittance woman
  4. remittance women
  5. remittances
  6. remittant
  7. remitted
  8. remittee
  9. remittees
  10. remittence
  11. remittences

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