executant
Americannoun
adjective
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of or relating to a performer, especially a musician.
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performing, especially in public.
noun
Etymology
Origin of executant
From the French word exécutant, dating back to 1855–60. See execute, -ant
Example Sentences
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Yet a ballerina is not just an executant; she is also a controlling force whose command of a ballet’s stage worlds and its internal dynamics register as thought.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2010
With a Biographical Sketch of Schnabel and an account of his activity as an executant, composer and teacher.
From The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Buck, Dudley
In thus developing that faculty we acquire something also, which, as executant musicians, gives us delightful influence over our fellows.
From Seed Thoughts for Singers by Tubbs, Frank Herbert
He was a fine executant, as not every composer is.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry
For the musical executant, on the other hand, a similar suggestion will set free the secondary instinct which the fingers have acquired, without the interference of the learner's puzzled, hesitating thoughts.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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