destituent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēstituēns (“abandoning”), present participle of dēstituō (“I forsake, I abandon”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

destituent (comparative more destituent, superlative most destituent)

  1. (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Deficient; lacking.
    a destituent condition
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
      When any condition intrinsically and in the nature of the thing included in an affirmative precept is destituent or wanting , the duty itself falls without interpretation
    • 1967, FCL Newsletter, volumes 16–19, page 6:
      Unfortunately, only 24 states and the District of Columbia were able to provide sufficient matching payments to allow destituent participants in the aid-to-dependent-children program to meet their basic needs.
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    destituent power/politics
    • 2022, Gian Giacomo Fusco, Form of Life: Agamben and the Destitution of Rules, page 73:
      Destituent power precedes the constituent moment: it is the necessary negative presupposition of any attempt to transform reality, as expressed by the refusal to recognise authority or law as valid and sustainable. In other words: constituent power presupposes the moment of the negation of the present, and this is the destituent moment of politics. […] destituent potential. […]

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

destituent

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of destituer

Latin

Verb

dēstituent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēstituō
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