Complete Definition of "tanist"

English

Etymology
Irish tánaiste, literally �second-in-command�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�tænɪst/

Noun
en-noun

  1. The heir apparent to a Celtic clan, who will succeed the chief

#:*1922: Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog. � James Joyce, Ulysses

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