issuant

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adjective

Issuing, emerging.

RareScrabble 7

Meanings

adjectiveissuant (not comparable)

alternative issant

  1. archaicnot comparableIssuing, emerging.

    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.

    2018 October 19, James M. Matarazzo Jr, The Judgment of Love: An Investigation of Salvific Judgment in Christian Eschatology, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN
  2. not comparablegovernmentIssuing or emerging from something, especially from the bottom (or a division) of the field or chief, or from an ordinary.
  3. broadlynot comparablegovernmentHaving only the upper half depicted, especially if because it is issuing from something (such as a division of the field). (Compare naissant.)

    The lion is issuant from a heraldic crown of gold on which are arranged the rose (for England), the thistle (for Scotland), the leek (for Wales), and the oak-leaf (for Great Britisn as a whole).

    1956 August, “New Emblem for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 549

Translations

French issant, mouvant
  • issantissuing (in heraldry)
  • mouvantissuing (in heraldry)

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APA

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MLA

“issuant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/issuant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “issuant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/issuant.

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