📚 Deponent, noun. 🔉 /dɪˈpəʊnənt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Law): A person who makes a deposition or affidavit under oath. ❗️ Examples: 1. I understand from the affidavits that the various deponents have inconvenienced themselves by coming to the Court today. 2. The deponents to these affidavits state that they have suffered injuries which were not fully compensated for under the prior settlements. 3. You are the deponent of the affidavit which you have provided to the Court Registry in support of the application? 4. The adoption of such a test would sometimes require the trial of an issue or at least cross-examination of deponents to affidavits. 5. If that is what the deponent of this affidavit wants to say, I want to cross-examine him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic