Associations to the word «Deferent»

Wiktionary

DEFERENT, adjective. Showing deference.
DEFERENT, adjective. (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
DEFERENT, noun. (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
DEFERENT, noun. (obsolete) (Ptolemaic astronomy) An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

Dictionary definition

DEFERENT, adjective. Showing deference.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin