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From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.