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Definition of Provant
1. v. t. To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.
2. a. Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.
Definition of Provant
1. inferior [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provant
Literary usage of Provant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"... if a man would have filled his boots full, there he might have had it : provant
thrust itself into poor soldiers' pockets whether they would or no. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Thus provant, put in apposition with any other thing, implied that such an article
was supplied for mere provi- rion; as we say, ammunition bread, &c., ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Thus provant, put in apposition with any other thing, implied that such an ...
The ingenious editor of the latter collection puts the stop at provant, ..."
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