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- noun Plural form of
solicitant .
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Examples
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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
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It is very certain that of all people in the world the most difficult to restrain and to manage are a people of solicitants.
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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
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The gubernatorial solicitants in Michigan have spent $3.4 million on television.
ajc.com - News 2010
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