deponentin a sentence
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The deponent is a chief new-product design engineer and we need to be sure she is not interrogated about potential new products by a lawyer of our prime competitor.
deponent = person who gives a deposition or testifies
- Deponent sinneth only by omission.† (source)
- More than this deponent knoweth not.† (source)
- The face was a notable one; the features all except the chin cleanly cut as those on a Greek medallion; yet the chin, beardless as Tecumseh's, had something of strange protuberant heaviness in its make that recalled the prints of the Rev. Dr. Titus Oates, the historic deponent with the clerical drawl in the time of Charles II and the fraud of the alleged Popish Plot.† (source)
- In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.† (source)