"Bannian" meaning in All languages combined

See Bannian on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Bannians [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Bannian (plural Bannians)
  1. Alternative form of banyan (trader or merchant belonging to the business class) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: banyan (extra: trader or merchant belonging to the business class)
    Sense id: en-Bannian-en-noun-fshKzN7O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "This species of men, from the great severity with which they revenge the death of a hare or partridge, might be thought to cultivate the same superstition with the Bannians in India; many of whom, we are told, dedicate their whole lives to the preservation and protection of certain animals; was it not that our English Bannians, while they preserve them from other enemies, will most unmercifully slaughter whole horse-loads themselves; so that they stand clearly acquitted of any such heathenish superstition.",
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