reclaimant

English edit

Etymology edit

Compare French réclamant, present participle.

Noun edit

reclaimant (plural reclaimants)

(chiefly law) One who reclaims.
One who cries out against or contradicts.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “reclaimant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)