destituent

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin destituens (“abandoning”), present participle of destituo (“I forsake, I abandon”).

Adjective edit

destituent (comparative more destituent, superlative most destituent)

(obsolete) deficient; lacking
a destituent condition
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
  When any condition intrinsically and in the nature of the thing included in an affirmative precept is destituent or wanting , the duty itself falls without interpretation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “destituent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Homophones: destitue, destitues

Verb edit

destituent

third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of destituer

Latin edit

Verb edit

dēstituent

third-person plural future active indicative of dēstituō