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Fugient vs Mugient - What's the difference?

fugient | mugient |

As adjectives the difference between fugient and mugient

is that fugient is fleeing while mugient is (obsolete) lowing; bellowing.

fugient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fleeing.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, pp. 297-8:
    • Thus, alongside of the Church militant with its prisons, dragonnades, and inquisition methods, we have the Church fugient , as one might call it, with its hermitages, monasteries, and sectarian organisations [...].
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    mugient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) lowing; bellowing
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • That a bittern maketh that mugient noise.
    (Webster 1913) ----