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noun
Deferent  n.  
1.
That which carries or conveys. "Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds."
2.
(Ptolemaic Astron.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.


adjective
Deferent  adj.  Serving to carry; bearing. (R.) "Bodies deferent."





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"Deferent" Quotes from Famous Books



... avoided it, but the cold was too great for her, and she did not know whether she was vexed or pleased at the gleam of compassion in the man's gray eyes. It was more eloquent than anything of the kind she had ever seen, but it had gone, and he was only quietly deferent, when she glanced at ...
— Winston of the Prairie • Harold Bindloss
... on the ledge of rock in front of him, for although it was hardly wise to seem too deferent, it would have been most unwise to move away and give him an unobstructed view of the valley, where Grim might be in sight or might not be. Our job was to ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... salutation, while the Greeks reserve it for the Emperor, or Basileus as he is sometimes called.... She condescended to talk with me. Her graces of mind are like those of her person—adorable.... I was very deferent, and yielded the choice of topics. She chose two—religion and arms. Had she been a man, she would have been a soldier; being a woman, she is a religious devotee. There is nothing of which she is more desirous than the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre to the Christian powers. She ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... the world seems to think it the effect of the arts of some of his friends: Voltaire sent him from Switzerland an accidental letter of the Duc de Richelieu bearing witness to the Admiral's good behaviour in the engagement.(755) A letter of a very deferent cast, and of great humour, is showed about, said to be written to Admiral Boscawen from an old tar, to ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole


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