ETYMOLOGY
from French Sacripant, from Italian Sacripante, a character in Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato
EXAMPLE
“…He is surprised by a nymph of exquisite loveliness, who vainly assails his constancy, and who is at length seized by the supervening Itifal, a Sacripant of knighthood. The adventures in general are spun out and interrupted by flat conversations…”
From: Historic Survey of German Poetry
By William Taylor, 1829
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