resiantEtymologyFrom Middle English reseaunt, resseaunt, from Anglo-Norman reseant, Middle French resseant etc., from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō. Doublet of resident and rezident.resiant means resident. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.adjResident.“That was to weet the famous Troynovant, / In which her kingdomes throne is chiefly resiant.”nounA resident.“Another section enacts, that "no subject of this realm that now is, or hereafter shall be, an inhabitant or resiant of this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed…”