substant
English
Etymology
From Latin substans, substantis, present participle of substare (“to be firm”).
Adjective
substant (comparative more substant, superlative most substant)
- substantial; firm
- 1884, The Century
- [The glacier's] substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, — breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, disintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.
- 1884, The Century