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remanantn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French remanaunt, remanant, remanoir. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman remanaunt, remenaunt, remennaunt, remeinaunt, etc., Anglo-Norman and Middle French remanant, remenant, remaignant, etc. (also remanent ; French rémanent : see below) that which remains (1119 in Anglo-Norman), present participle of remanoir remain v. Compare post-classical Latin remanantum residue, remainder (12th cent. in a British source), remanentum , remenantum remnant (1309, 1509 in British sources), Spanish remanente , noun (second half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese remanente , adjective (1327), Italian rimanente , adjective and noun (a1279 as noun, a1311 as adjective). Compare slightly earlier aremanant adv. Compare later remanent n.1, remanent adj., which are identical in pronunciation to this word. Compare also later remnant n., remainant n.The later uses (from the mid 20th cent. onwards) may well show a different origin, probably as a misspelling for remanent n.1, or perhaps as variant of remnant n. with epenthetic vowel (although this would have few parallels in modern English, and association with other words of similar shape, such as immanent adj., would suggest a spelling in -ent rather than -ant ). French rémanent (noun) apparently only survives in a specific plural sense ‘debris left behind in a felling area after work has been done there’ (attested from 1832 in this sense). With γ. forms compare martilmas , etc., variants of Martinmas n., and also elmy , variant of enemy n.1 With sense 3 compare the following earlier example of a vernacular word in a Latin context, although it is unclear whether this shows the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1346 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 23 j remenant de panno russeto ad estimacionem unius tunicae. the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons α. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 6210 (MED) A þousand & mo þai slowen, Þe remanant of hors drowen. c1380 (1879) 3273 (MED) Þanne tok he..an hundred..To come..to þe engyns..Al þe remanant of þe numbre he ordeyneþ to schute & caste. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 27 Twa of þam er wonder hie and wyde also, and þe remanand er noȝt so hie. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. 185 The ramanand apon thaim folowit fast. 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in 1310/2 He myghte thereby haue giuen occasyon of enuye..to Iudas, or peraduenture grefe to the remanant. 1573 J. Tyrie in (S.T.S.) 17 Ye and the remanant of your propheites ar alluterlie separat from the trew kirk. 1642 W. Parsons et al. Let. to Charles I 16 Mar. in R. Coxe (1689) 8 When (by Gods blessing and your Majesties tender care of the remanant of your poor People left yet undestroyed, in sending Forces hither) we were enabled..to beat off those Multitudes [etc.]. 2000 M. H. Floyd 210 The same cataclysm also opens up the possibility of a new and more just world order in which the remanant of Judah will enjoy a favorable position. 2. the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest α. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith (1870) 26 (MED) Ye pouer brother or sister shal haue xij d. in ye woke, and ye remanant shal be done to ye light. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. (Caxton) (1877) lf. 34v A wyseman ought..to kepe wele the remanaunt of his good. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 79 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 258 Þe remanand dystribut scho to pure mene. c1500 (?a1437) (1939) clxxi (MED) Spend wele..the remanant of the day. 1566 in E. Peacock (1866) 88 The Remanaunt to the poore. 1986 P. M. Postal vii. 250 The second person nominal..is separated from the remanant of the clause. society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > residue of an estate 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton (new ed.) f. xviiiv Yf the lorde wyll graunte the homage of his lande by his dede to another sauynge to hym the remenaunte of the seruyces. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton (new ed.) f. xxiv She shal haue nothyng in the remenaunt for..that she is suffyciently auaunced, to whiche auauncement she agreeth. the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 16 (MED) If þei Sir Frethebald haf now ouer comen, þe to þere remenant [Fr. le remanaunt] of þe North son salle þei nomen. 1406 in F. J. Furnivall (1882) 13 (MED) All the remenauntys of my godys, y wyll they be preysyd & parttyd in thre. 1433 (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §56. m. 3 The same clothe to be sold for a remenaunt, or for pece, and nat for a clothe. 1446 in J. Raine (1865) III. 102 (MED) De viij ulnis et di. de fustyan in remenaunt. 1577 R. Barnes in J. Raine (1850) 24 We monishe and charge that... All the remanents of Roode lofts and remanants of alters..be vtterly removed out of the churches. 1674 W. Annand 22 But that God had left us a remenant, as a naile in a sure place they had become as dung. 1952 17 23 Scarcely a remanant of the forest remains. 1974 47 367 Hong Kong is an oddity. It can be seen as a curious remanant from the nineteenth century. 2004 B. Greene xv. 460 Richard Gott..discovered another method for building a time machine making use of so-called cosmic strings (hypothetical, infinitely long, filamentary remanants of phase transitions in the early universe). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.c1330 |
