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/sant/ An Indian holy man; (a title of) a devotee or ascetic, esp. in north and east India.
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1909 M. A. Macauliffe Sikh Religion IV. 298 The Guru said, ‘a son shall be born in his house whom you shall call Sant Das.’
1934 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Stony Limits 131 It is world-wide, ageless. It is the Sufi Nida and Sant.
1968 W. H. McLeod Gurū Nānak & Sikh Religion v. 153 The first of the great Sants was Nāmder (A.D. 1270–1350).
1972 Times 31 Oct. 17/7 The Sant, meaning holy man, was at the centre of the struggle in the first half of the 1960s for a Sikh-dominated Punjabi-speaking state.
1984 Listener 17 May 13/3 The Sant sits cross-legged on his bed and courteously answers my questions in Punjabi.
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