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  • noun Plural form of acquaintant.

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Examples

  • In the time I was a Wife, I had frequent occasions to make use of all or most of my aforenamed qualities; and what I exercised not within my own roof, I used among my neighbours, friends and acquaintants.

    The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675

  • In the time I was a Wife, I had frequent occasion to make use of all, or most of my aforenamed qualities; and what I exercised not within my own roof, I used among my neighbours, friends and acquaintants.

    The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589

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