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Word Meanings - LITIGANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe.

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  • ASSERTORY
    Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • VINDICATOR
    One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.
  • LITIGANT
    Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe.
  • DISPUTANT
    Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.
  • COMPETITOR
    1. One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival. And can not brook competitors in love. Shak. 2. An associate; a confederate. Every hour more competitors Flock to their aid, and still their
  • APPELLANT
    Relating to an appeal; appellate. "An appellant jurisdiction." Hallam. Party appellant , the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.
  • COMPETITORY
    Acting in competition; competing; rival.
  • CLAIMANT
    One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
  • VINDICATORY
    1. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. 2. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
  • ASSERTOR
    One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter. The assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.
  • ASSERTORIAL
    Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.
  • RECLAIMANT
    One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
  • COLLITIGANT
    Disputing or wrangling. -- n.
  • DECLAIMANT
    A declaimer.

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