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complainant, a. and n.|kəmˈpleɪnənt|
Forms: see complain v.
[a. F. complaignant, pr. pple. (also used subst.) of complaindre: see complain v. and -ant.]
A. adj. Law. Formally complaining, lodging a legal complaint. Also gen., complaining.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 7 §4 If the partie compleynant..can not prove the mater of his seid bill to be true. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 643, I beyng the partie griefed, and complaynant. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. ii. 35 b, The said partie complainant to be bounde, etc. 1791J. Byng Diary 18 June (1935) II. 312 When she writes fully, she is complainant, and refines upon pleasure till it becomes a pain! 1891Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 7/2 On the appearance of a female in the dock, it was reported that the complainant shopkeeper would not attend. 1897Daily News 23 July 4/5 The conference between the Postmaster-General and the complainant sections of the Post Office servants.
B. n.
1. Law. One who enters a legal complaint against another; a plaintiff or prosecutor, in Chancery or Ecclesiastical courts.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 7 §4 The same compleynaunt, not provyng the mater of his seid bill to be true. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 47 The complainaunt commenseth his action, and the defendaunt thereupon aunswereth. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 78 A divorce..is grantable to separate the complainant a mensa et thoro. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4315/3 A Cause wherein Christopher Pitt and others..were Complainants against Sir Charles Bickerstaffe. 1824Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 186/1 A Judge..placed..between the complainant and him against whom it is complained.
2. a. gen. One who complains, a complainer.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xvi. 32 He wolde nat departe..tyll all the complaynantes were fully satisfyed. 1581Mulcaster Positions xli. (1887) 254 It is not my complaint, though I ioyne with the complainantes. 1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xv, Christ is left alone; alone in respect of these complaynants. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. iii. iii. 148 No want of complaint, nor of complainants.
b. spec. One who complains of ill-health.
1861H. Spencer Educ. iv. 175 [As] she had no energy left for exercise, she is, now that she has finished her education, a constant complainant. |