presentee

American  

[prez-uhn-tee] / ˌprɛz ənˈti /

noun

1. a person to whom something is presented.

2. a person who is presented, as to a benefice.

3. a debutante.

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presentee British  

/ ˌprɛzənˈtiː /

noun

1. a person who is presented, as at court

2. a person to whom something is presented

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Etymology

Origin of presentee

From Anglo-French, dating back to 1490–1500; see origin at present ², -ee

Example Sentences

When a presentee dropped a coin in confusion, the sweltering King cracked, "Finders keepers!"

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1834 she passed the Veto Act, giving power to "the major part of the male heads of families, members of the vacant congregation," in any parish to get quit of an unpopular presentee.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

Another pause, the presentee hardly considering himself justified in replying to this observation.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various

We borrow the last word from the hill folk, the presentee landlords; the producers, or, to put it quite bluntly, the workers.

From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Hough and his ejected brethren assembled and presented a clerk; and the Bishop of Gloucester, in whose diocese the living lay, instituted their presentee without hesitation.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron