Solicitant
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who solicits.
"The ante-chambers of the President are daily thronged with solicitants—with men who think they helped to make the President, and who are consequently of opinion that the President should help to make them."
- 2 A priest who abused the confessional to solicit women. historical
"How like to the conduct of a Titular Bishop of Derry, who, when a Priest was accused of the crime of "solicitant at confession," expressed his abhorrence of the offence, and punished the offender by removing him to a better parish!"
Example
More examples"The ante-chambers of the President are daily thronged with solicitants—with men who think they helped to make the President, and who are consequently of opinion that the President should help to make them."
Etymology
Latin solicitans, present participle of sollicitō.
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