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intrigant

or ·ٰ·ܲԳ

[ in-tri-guhnt; French an-tree-gahn ]

noun

plural intrigants
  1. a person who engages in intrigue or intrigues.


intrigant

/ ɛ̃triɡɑ̃; ˈɪntrɪɡənt /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a person who intrigues; intriguer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of intrigant1

1775–85; < French < Italian intrigante, present participle of intrigare to intrigue
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Salieri was typecast as a foreign interloper, an Italian intrigant—a pattern already visible in Leopold Mozart’s letters to his son.

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General von Schleicher was for years the master intrigant and "Field Grey Eminence" of the German Reichswehr.

Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen.

Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha.

Because of the Chancellor-General's reputation as the Fatherland's master intrigant, Germans gave him credit for the next dramatic development�a split in the Fascist Party.

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