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contemplant

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin contemplans (“contemplating”), present participle of contemplor (“I contemplate”).

Adjective edit

contemplant (comparative more contemplant, superlative most contemplant)

  1. (archaic) Given to contemplation; meditative.
    • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings:
      Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er
      With untired gaze the immeasurable fount
      Ebullient with creative Deity!

Noun edit

contemplant (plural contemplants)

  1. (archaic) One who contemplates.

Catalan edit

Verb edit

contemplant

  1. gerund of contemplar

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Participle edit

contemplant

  1. present participle of contempler

Latin edit

Verb edit

contemplant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of contemplō
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