contemplant

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adjective

Given to contemplation; meditative.

OriginLatin contemplans →
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Meanings

adjectivecontemplant (comparative more contemplant, superlative most contemplant)

comparative more contemplant · superlative most contemplant

  1. archaicGiven to contemplation; meditative.

    Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er With untired gaze the immeasurable fount Ebullient with creative Deity!

    1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings
nouncontemplant (plural contemplants)

plural contemplants

  1. archaicOne who contemplates.

Origin

  1. Latincontemplans“contemplating”
  2. Englishcontemplant

From Latin contemplans (“contemplating”), present participle of contemplor (“to contemplate”).

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contemplant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contemplant

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“contemplant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contemplant. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contemplant,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contemplant.

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