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deferent (adj.)
1620s, from French
déférent
(16c.), from Latin
deferentem
(nominative
deferens
), present participle of
deferre
"to carry down or away" (see
defer
(v.2)). Earlier in Middle English as a word in astronomy (early 15c.).
