Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A complainant; a plaintiff.
- n. An inquirer.
- n. In horary astrology, the person who asks the question.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete An inquirer.
- n. law, historical A complainant; a plaintiff.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (O. Eng. Law) A complainant; a plaintiff.
- n. obsolete An inquirer.
Etymologies
- Old French and Anglo-Norman querant, from Latin quaerens, present participle of quaerō ("I search for, I inquire") (English query). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The querent is the person having the reading, the person asking the questions.”
“I can't speak for Hofstadter, but I'm fairly certain that I didn't use the word "style" in its aesthetic sense. querent replied to comment from querent”
“And all these transparently anti-Semitic stories give them cover, they inoculate them from legitimate criticism. querent”
“I love the slog ... querent on The woman who can't stop orgas ...”
Cooksey-Talbott's Vertical Panorama Landscapes - Boing Boing
“Poor Cardboard Brian, he just wasn't good 'Neff. querent replied to comment from Anonymous”
My weekend with a cardboard version of my boyfriend Boing Boing
“Amissio represented loss, things taken away from the querent, whether willingly or by force.”
“The Negative Zone is now shown open, so that when reversed, the querent is faced with the possiblity of falling into it, as it were.”
“The cards are like objective observers identifying the potential of the querent.”
“For this reading, this is the card that will represent you, the querent, the person you are. now.”
“The fourth card in the reading is taken to indicate one single, overriding issue - very often unconscious, unacknowledged by the querent - that has influenced the decision to seek a reading.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘querent’.
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Words from Blood Meridian
visage, affray, scullery, miasma, mirth, purlieu, tacit, benighted, wickiup, corral, amble, accoutre and 210 more...
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phrontistery - q
from phrontistery.info
quoz, quotuple, quotum, quotition, quotiety, quotidian, quotha, quotennial, quotatious, quorate, quondam, quomodocunquize and 227 more...
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Words that should be heard in songs m...
Inspired by PossibleUnderscore's list of words overused in modern pop music.
giant squid, bamboo, colonic, herbivore, raptor, dodecahedron, largesse, sinuses, dim sum, carburetor, transubstantiation, wife and 54 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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people
authoress, arm candy, doppelganger, contender, portraitist, acolyte, hierophant, whistleblower, scrivener, querent, banshee, jester and 81 more...
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Requestuary
WHAT WHO WHEN HOW WHY WHERE
pysmatic, adjure, impetrate, percontation, zetetic, entreaty, probe, query, inquire, solicit, quiz, interpellate and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for querent.
chained_bear "If the converse applies, however, and the lord of the ascendant be in the twelfth or sixth, then it shows that the querent occasioned his problems by his own willfulness."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 281 Oct 7, 2008
whichbe A questioner; specifically, one who seeks the advice of astrologers. May 11, 2008