presentee

American  

[prez-uhn-tee] / ˌprɛz ənˈti /

noun

1. a person to whom something is presented. present.

2. a person who is presented, present, 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; present ², -ee

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The father presentee, Fray Francisco Matoces, son of the convent of Santa Catharina Virgen y Martir, of Barzelona.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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.

The Auchterarder presbytery, for their part in the affair, were prosecuted in the Court of Session by the injured parties—Lord Kinnoul, the patron, and Mr Young, the presentee.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

His Royal Highness was not one of those accomplished princes whose pride it is to know the name, the family, the pursuits, and predilections of each new presentee.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James