Meanings
plural resiants · alternative resiaunt
- obsoleteA resident.First known use 15th–19th c.
Another section enacts, that "no subject of this realm that now is, or hereafter shall be, an inhabitant or resiant of this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed…
1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England (Volume 3)
comparative more resiant · superlative most resiant · alternative resiaunt
- obsoleteResident.First known use 15th–19th c.
That was to weet the famous Troynovant, / In which her kingdomes throne is chiefly resiant.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Latinresidēns
- Middle Frenchresseant
- Anglo-Normanreseant
- Middle Englishreseaunt
- Englishresiant
From Middle English reseaunt, resseaunt, from Anglo-Norman reseant, Middle French resseant etc., from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō. Doublet of resident and rezident.
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