precant
English
editNoun
editprecant (plural precants)
- (rare, obsolete) A person who prays.
- 1854, “Notes on Luther's table talk”, in Professor Shedd, editor, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 5:
- The attempt to answer this argument by admitting its invalidity relatively to God, but asserting the efficacy of prayer relatively to the pray-er or precant himself, is merely staving off the objection a single step.