questant

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noun

Somebody who undertakes a quest.

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Meanings

nounquestant (plural questants)

plural questants

  1. archaicSomebody who undertakes a quest.

    Not to wooe honour, but to wed it, when The brauest questant shrinkes: finde what you seeke, [T]hat fame may cry you loud: I say farewell.

    c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
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