percussant

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percussant (not comparable)

  1. Percussive; striking (also figuratively).
    • 1970 August 20, J. R. Pole, The Revolution in America 1754–1788: Documents and Commentaries, Springer, →ISBN:
      The central problem for this study was the imbalanced provision of already published evidence. He has resolved it in a striking and percussant manner. He closes in first on the problem of continental government, which the patriots inherited, supplying the essential material on state-making, from the Albany Plan of 1754, []
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