suant
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English suant (“following”),[1] from Anglo-Norman suant, from Old French suiant, sivant, present participle of sivre (“to follow”), from Latin sequor.
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suant (comparative more suant, superlative most suant)
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Adverb edit
suant (comparative more suant, superlative most suant)
- (obsolete or dialectal, rare) Smoothly; without difficulty.
- 1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, Book of the West[1], page 252:
- Peter and his wife did not get on very "suant" together.
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “suant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
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suant
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suant
Noun edit
suant m
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suant
Adjective edit
suant (feminine suante, masculine plural suants, feminine plural suantes)
Further reading edit
- “suant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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