guardant
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French guardant, present participle of guarder.
Adjective
guardant (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of an animal) Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer
Translations
heraldry: with head toward viewer
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Noun
guardant (plural guardants)
- (obsolete) A guardian.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
- But when my angry guardant stood alone, / Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none, / Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart / Suddenly made him from my side to start / Into the clustering battle of the French.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “guardant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Catalan
Verb
guardant
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Middle French
Verb
guardant (feminine singular guardante, masculine plural guardans, feminine plural guardantes)
Old French
Verb
guardant
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