battailant

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adjective

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

OriginFrench bataillant →
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Meanings

adjectivebattailant (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletePrepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

    An Elephant[…]That on his backe did beare (as batteilant) A gilden towre.

    1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
nounbattailant (plural battailants)

plural battailants

  1. obsoleteA combatant.

    he presently thought that he was dead, and that those battaillants that fought so eagerly in the Room, had slain him

    1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchbataillant
  2. Englishbattailant

From French bataillant, present participle. See battle.

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APA

battailant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/battailant

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Chicago

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