| -ent suff. 1. a. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: absorbent. b. Being in a specified state or condition: bivalent. 2. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: referent. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -  ns, -ent-, present participle suff.] |
-ent
suffix forming adjectives and nouns
causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action astringent dependent
[from Latin -ent-, -ens, present participial ending]
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