precant

English

Noun

precant (plural precants)

  1. (rare, obsolete) A person who prays.
    • 1854, “Notes on Luther's table talk”, in Professor Shedd, editor, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 5:
      The attempt to answer this argument by admitting its invalidity relatively to God, but asserting the efficacy of prayer relatively to the pray-er or precant himself, is merely staving off the objection a single step.

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