Noun: executant
| Singular | executant |
| Plural | executants |
Sample Sentences
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[…] no composer or dramatic poet has ever pretended to be able to perform all the parts he writes for the singers, actors and players who are his executants. [1987, Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah:]
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Also of importance are the other theatricians - the costume designer and/or executant, the lighting designer and/or executant, the technical director, […] [1991, Olusola Aderounmu, Jibola Dedenuola, Management and problems of media practices in Nigeria, page 120:]
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After all, Cave speaks about orders being so manifestly illegal that the person carrying them out must or ought to have been aware of their unlawfulness. From this alone, one can draw the conclusion that, if the executant of the order actually knows of its unlawfulness, he ought to be convicted, no matter whether the order is or, as in John Doe's case, is not manifestly illegal. [2012, Yoram Dinstein, The Defence of 'Obedience to Superior Orders' in International Law:]
Nouns inflected like executant
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French exécutant. By surface analysis, execute + -ant. See: French Nouns '
exécutant'.