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solicitants

solicitants is the plural of solicitant.

Meaning of solicitant

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
  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

Questions about solicitants

What is solicitants the plural of?
Solicitants is the plural of solicitant.

Words near solicitants in the dictionary

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

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