appellants
noun
Meaning
- A litigant or party that is making an appeal in court
- One who makes an earnest entreaty of any kind.
- One who challenges another to single combat.
- One of the clergy in the Jansenist controversy who rejected the bull Unigenitus issued in 1713, appealing to a pope "better informed", or to a general council.
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