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solicitant

solicitant noun: one who solicits.

Noun

solicitant (plural solicitants)

  1. One who solicits.
    • The ante-chambers of the President are daily thronged with solicitants—with men who think they helped to make the President, and who are consequently of opinion that the President should help to make them.1859, Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, page 83
    • The communication between the medium and the human solicitants, described by both the medium and Pu, was conducted through informal yet polite conversation.2006, Xiofei Kang, The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
  2. (historical) A priest who abused the confessional to solicit women.
    • How like to the conduct of a Titular Bishop of Derry, who, when a Priest was accused of the crime of "solicitant at confession," expressed his abhorrence of the offence, and punished the offender by removing him to a better parish!1840, The Orthodox Presbyterian Theological Review and Missionary Recorder
    • Solicitant, one who, abusing the privacy of the confessional, tempts women to a violation of chastity.1894, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume 9, page 861

Examples of solicitant in a sentence

  • But delicate as it was, it was this connection between solicitants and a bundle of papers somewhere in the IBR system that made landownership official.2011, Kregg Hetherington, Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay, page 108:
  • Solicitants for office besiege him, and he of course finds his hands full for the present.2013, Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man, page 258:

Forms of solicitant

pluralsolicitants

Origin of solicitant

Latin solicitans, present participle of sollicitō.

Questions about solicitant

What does solicitant mean?
Solicitant means one who solicits.
How do you use solicitant in a sentence?
But delicate as it was, it was this connection between solicitants and a bundle of papers somewhere in the IBR system that made landownership official.
What part of speech is solicitant?
Solicitant is a noun.
What is the plural of solicitant?
The plural of solicitant is solicitants.

Words near solicitant in the dictionary

  1. Solgen
  2. soli
  3. solianka
  4. soliankas
  5. solicit
  6. solicitant
  7. solicitants
  8. solicitate
  9. solicitated
  10. solicitates
  11. solicitating

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