| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SUFFIX: | 1a. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: acceptant. b. Being in a specified state or condition: flippant. 2a. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: deodorant. b. One that undergoes a specified action: inhalant. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin - ns, -ant-, present participle suff. of verbs in -re.
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