Demonstrant

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A participant in a demonstration.

    "Anybody who does anything in the way of business, if he can but write his name, is a “merchant;” and especially when an address is getting up by agitators of elastic conscience, content to procure an array of demonstrants numerous, if not select."

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"Anybody who does anything in the way of business, if he can but write his name, is a “merchant;” and especially when an address is getting up by agitators of elastic conscience, content to procure an array of demonstrants numerous, if not select."

Etymology

From Latin dēmonstrant- (stem of dēmonstrāns).

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