issuant

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Left: Erminois 3 piles azure, 2 issuant from chief, 1 in base (arms of Shropshire).
Middle: hand issuant from a cloud (arms of Echternach Abbey, depicting whole hand, not only upper half).
Right: lion issuant (crest of Clan Nicolson, depicting only the upper half of the lion).

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issuant (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Issuing, emerging.
    • 2018 October 19, James M. Matarazzo Jr, The Judgment of Love: An Investigation of Salvific Judgment in Christian Eschatology, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:
      It is the place that whatever goodness a damned human being has is amplified. Thus, hell is issuant from God's love. God is maximally good even to those beings that by their acquired nature must be eternally separated from heaven.
  2. (heraldry) Issuing or emerging from something, especially from the bottom (or a division) of the field or chief, or from an ordinary.
  3. (heraldry, by extension, of an animal) Having only the upper half depicted, especially if because it is issuing from something (such as a division of the field). (Compare naissant.)

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