Guardant

Word GUARDANT
Character 8
Hyphenation guard ant
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Guardant"

What do we mean by guardant?

Positioned so that the head is turned toward the viewer. Used of an animal depicted so that its body is viewed from the side. adjective

Acting as a guard or guardian; protecting.

In heraldry See gardant.

A guard or guardian. noun

Acting as guardian. adjective

Same as Gardant. adjective

A guardian. noun

Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer adjective

A guardian. noun

Looking forward adjective

A guardian.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Guardant

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The word "guardant" in example sentences

All that has been squeezed onto its reverse is the rear flanks of one lion passant guardant and the anus of another. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A waiter in full bloom appeared at the end of the passage, guardant. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

At the feet an angel, with flowing black hair, and crowned, is represented rising from clouds, holding towards the recumbent figure a shield, on which the Priory Arms are embossed and illuminated: _Gules_, two lions _passant guardant: or_, two ducal coronets in chief. ❋ George Worley (N/A)

Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a lion _couchant guardant_, in the right hand a knife, his emblem, in the left hand a book. ❋ George Worley (N/A)

Three lions passant-guardant in pale -- England, for ... ❋ Various (N/A)

On the dexter and sinister sides, two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, and two cane heads, issuant of the third; the first having one eye, couchant, towards the dexter side of the escutcheon; the second faced, per pale, proper, and gules guardant. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)

Sable, on a fesse invected or, between three cats a mountain passant guardant argent, a fasces in bend, surmounting a sword in bend sinister proper, between two crescents gules, in the centre chief point a rose of the third. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Now, you companion, I’ll say an errand for you: you shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment with him, if thou standest not i’ the state of hanging, or of some death more long in spectatorship, and crueller in suffering; behold now presently, and swound for what’s to come upon thee. ❋ Unknown (1914)

On a cross five lions passant guardant -- City of York. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Three lions passant guardant, a label of three points, each charged with three fleur-de-lis -- Thomas, Duke of Lancaster. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Three lions passant guardant, with a label of three points -- Edward, Prince of Wales. ❋ Unknown (1896)

On a chevron, three lions passant guardant -- Cobham. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Three lions passant guardant, a border -- Edmund of Woodstock. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Beneath it, on a daïs of a single step, stood a velvet chair, with gilded arms, and worked with the royal shield in the embroidery of the back -- with a crowned lion _sejant, guardant_, for the crest above the crown. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

Here was a worthy quest -- a beautiful if not precious crystal betokening the actual presence of a wary demon guardant over the mouldering skeletons of Wylo's forefathers! ❋ Unknown (1887)

Or on Waves a Lymphad, or Ancient Galley, with Oars in action, proper on a chief Gules a Lion passant guardant or, as the same are severally depicted in the margin hereof, to be borne for the said respective Provinces on ❋ Unknown (1868)

Or on a Fess Gules between two Fluer de Lis in chief Azure, and a sprig of three Leaves of Maple slipped vert in base, a Lion passant guardant or ❋ Unknown (1868)

In the British Museum a silver piece like a florin bears on the obverse 'Sierra Leone Company, Africa,' surrounding a lion guardant standing on a mountain; the reverse shows between the two numbers ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

RICHARD II. to THOMAS MOWBRAY, Earl Marshal, and now borne by the Duke of NORFOLK, is _a lion statant guardant, his tail extended or, and ducally gorged arg. _: the PERCY lion is _statant, his tail extended or_: each lion stands upon a chapeau. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)

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