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† reˈquirant Obs.
[-ant: cf. F. requérant (14th c.).]
One who makes a request or demand; a wooer or suitor.
a1467Gregory's Chron. (Camden) 155 For the surplus of the tyme that the saudyers shalle serve, the requyrant shalle ben holdyn to sendyn hem at hys propyr dysposycyon. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. (1890) III. 329 A faythfull Louer and deuout requirant to this Iolly dame. 1755N. Magens Insurances I. 294 The Cargo of Wheat arrived from London..consigned to the said Requirants. 1812in G. E. Cory Rise of S. Afr. (1910) I. vii. 213 The R.O. Requirant feels himself obliged to declare that he has not any ground for further action against the defendant. |