destituent

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English

Etymology

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

Adjective

destituent (comparative more destituent, superlative most destituent)

  1. (obsolete) deficient; lacking
    a destituent condition
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; , volume (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Pronunciation

Verb

destituent

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of destituer

Latin

Verb

dēstituent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēstituō
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