solicitant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who solicits.
noun
A priest who abused the confessional to solicit women.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The communication between the medium and the human solicitants, described by both the medium and Pu, was conducted through informal yet polite conversation."
- "In 1592, the papacy assigned the Inquisition jurisdiction over solicitation among the clergy; it thus enabled the Holy Office to pursue solicitation and solicitants in the peninsula and the oversea dominions."
- "But delicate as it was, it was this connection between solicitants and a bundle of papers somewhere in the IBR system that made landownership official."
- "Solicitants for office besiege him, and he of course finds his hands full for the present."
- "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!"
Etymology
Latin solicitans, present participle of sollicitō.