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单词 demonstrant
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demonstrantn.

Brit. /dᵻˈmɒnstr(ə)nt/, U.S. /dᵻˈmɑnstr(ə)nt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin dēmonstrant-, dēmonstrāns, dēmonstrāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin dēmonstrant-, dēmonstrāns, present participle of dēmonstrāre demonstrate v.
1. The reasoning used to prove a proposition, etc. Cf. demonstrate v. 2a. Obsolete.
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1682 V. Mandey tr. T. Hobbes Some Princ. & Probl. Geom. iii. xi, in V. Mandey Mellificium Mensionis 174 This is the plain use of Definitions, that he to whom a Demonstration is made, may understand what certain and universal signification of the word, the Demonstrant [L. demonstrantem] would have taken.
2. A protestor; = demonstrator n. 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > militant person > protester or demonstrator
protestator1468
protester1827
demonstrant1838
demonstrationist1838
demonstrator1838
protestor1854
marcher1908
refusenik1981
1838 Essex Standard 30 Nov. 2/6 We were not much dismayed by these demonstrants—considering their reproaches as our highest encomiums.
1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 3 The demonstrants would, in any case, have been obliged to seek shelter.
1887 Sc. Leader 14 Nov. 5 Mingling with the more respectable part of the demonstrants are a great many roughs.
1919 Continent 20 Mar. 326/1 The demonstrations by the Koreans are declared to have been..orderly until the demonstrants were charged by gendarmes.
2007 V. Vida Let Northern Lights erase your Name (2008) 190 The company would pick up more demonstrants in Alta and bring them back to the protest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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