guardant
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Etymology edit
From Old French guardant, present participle of guarder (“to watch”).
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Adjective edit
guardant (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of an animal) Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer.
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heraldry: with head toward viewer
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guardant (plural guardants)
- (obsolete) A guardian.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- But when my angry guardant stood alone,
Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,
Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
Suddenly made him from my side to start
Into the clustering battle of the French.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “guardant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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guardant
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guardant (feminine singular guardante, masculine plural guardans, feminine plural guardantes)
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guardant