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querent

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A complainant; a plaintiff.
  • noun An inquirer.
  • noun In horary astrology, the person who asks the question.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (O. Eng. Law) A complainant; a plaintiff.
  • noun obsolete An inquirer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law, historical A complainant; a plaintiff.
  • noun obsolete An inquirer.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin querens, present participle of queror ("I complain").

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Old French and Anglo-Norman querant, from Latin quaerens, present participle of quaerō ("I search for, I inquire") (English query).

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. complainant
  2. inquirer
  3. plaintiff

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  • whichbe commented on the word querent

    A questioner; specifically, one who seeks the advice of astrologers.

    May 12, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the word querent

    "If the converse applies, however, and the lord of the ascendant be in the twelfth or sixth, then it shows that the querent occasioned his problems by his own willfulness."

    —Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 281

    October 8, 2008