On 2019-10-31, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > (I do understand what you probably mean by the overall statement, of > course, but linguistics is one of my interests and this has caught my > attention.) >
I believe the OP is French and means 'exigent' is the usual French sense of the word---demanding, exacting in one's demands. -- We do not remember what we might have been before birth. This, and only this, gives hope of oblivion.--Insufficient! William T. Vollmann, "Supernatural Axioms"
