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cant

abbreviation

1. Canticle of.

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adjective

1. Having corners or sides.

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noun

1. A slanted or oblique surface.

2. A thrust or motion that tilts something.

3. An outer corner, as of a building.

4. Angular deviation from a vertical or horizontal plane or surface; an inclination or slope.

5. Hypocritically pious language.

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verb

1. To give a cant or oblique edge to.

2. To set at an angle.

3. To throw with a lurch.

4. To pitch to one side.

5. To talk or beg in a whining or singsong manner.

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verb-intransitive

1. To lean to one side; slant.

2. To speak in a whining, pleading tone.

3. To speak in argot or jargon.

4. To speak tediously or sententiously; moralize.

5. To take an oblique direction or course; swing around, as a ship.

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Cant Sentence Examples

ANDREW CANT (1590?-1663), a leader of the Scottish Covenanters.0 | 0 |
QUAKERS, originally a cant name applied in derision to the members of the Society of Friends, but now used without any contemptuous significance.0 | 0 |
His grandfather was an emigrant from Scotland, and the name Cant is not uncommon in the north of Scotland, whence the family is said to have come.0 | 0 |
There had been a time when the cant of such fools would have made Bunyan miserable.0 | 0 |
The Latin future has been replaced, as everywhere, by tile perirphasis (c a n t a r e ha b en), but it is worth noticing that in certain old texts of the 13th century, and in the popular songs of a comparatively ancient date which have been preserved in Asturias, the auxiliary can still precede the infinitive (ha ben cant a r e), as with the Latin writers of the decadence:0 | 0 |
Donnie won the first game with "cant" which Dean questioned, unsuccessfully, assuming the boy meant the more common version, "can't," which was unacceptable.0 | 0 |
And as a poet Lull takes a prominent position in the history of Catalan literature; such pieces as El Desconort (1295) and Lo Cant de Ramon (1299) combine in a rare degree simple beauty of expression with sublimity of thought and impassioned sincerity.0 | 0 |
Swift inoculated the Scriblerus Club with his own hatred of pedantry, cant and circumlocution.0 | 0 |
The general condemnation of " shams " and cant had, of course, particular applications, though he left them to be inferred by his readers.0 | 0 |
By the aid of this arrangement the natural cant of the machine when making a turn could be checked, if it became excessive.0 | 0 |
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