exigeant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of exigeant
From French
Example Sentences
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His Holiness is too loving a parent to be exigeant without good reason.
From Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times by William Henry Giles Kingston
But even duty may pall on an exigeant husband, and a man may be brought to wish that his wife would cross him.
From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
He is growing exigeant, jealous, presuming; he amuses me no longer—he wearies.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
Gradually the Marchioness had become exigeant, and the Marquis was becoming aware that he was being thrown over.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
But we who grovel on the damask earth Are we despoilt of thy exigeant mirth?
From The Dreamers A Club by John Kendrick Bangs
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