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▪ I. tendent, a. Now rare.|ˈtɛndənt|
Also 4–7 -ant, 6 -aunt.
[a. OF. tendant, pr. pple. of tendre to stretch, to proceed: see tend v.2]
Tending, having a tendency (to or towards some end). Obs. before 18th c.; revived late in 19th.
a1340Hampole Psalter iv. 9 It is tendant in til lastandnes and vnchaungeabile ioy. 1512Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 92 Tendaunt to the ende to take and holde in his hande the said duchy. 1657Divine Lover 14 Wee..shal remayne vnable as not tendant towards our foresaid end. 1900Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 103 The historical novel is magnetized history in which every fact is quiveringly tendent toward some focal pole of unity.
▪ II. tendent
obs. var. tendant. |