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  • noun Plural form of solicitant.

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Examples

  • Even between a Horace and a Maecenas it must have caused occasional embarrassment: we find the former, for instance, dedicating poems to men whose character he could not respect, but to whom, as his patron's associates, he was bound to render homage; while his supposed intimacy with the all-powerful minister exposed him to tedious solicitants, who waylaid him in his daily walks.

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • It is very certain that of all people in the world the most difficult to restrain and to manage are a people of solicitants.

    democracy in America, volume 2 1838

  • It is very certain that of all people in the world the most difficult to restrain and to manage are a people of solicitants.

    Democracy in America — Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • The gubernatorial solicitants in Michigan have spent $3.4 million on television.

    ajc.com - News 2010

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