retreatant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of retreatant
Example Sentences
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"There's always someone who leaves," says Jack Pannell, a press aide to Georgia Congressman John Lewis and a five-year retreatant.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can promise you at once that as a retreatant, you will not be bound to lead the life of a Trappist in its austerest sense.
From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Then they told him that a retreatant would communicate and he answered 'Just so, I shall communicate him.'
From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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