Definition of "remanent" [rem•a•nent]

• Remaining or persisting especially after an electrical or magnetic influence is removed (adjective)

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• "I.E. His remanent support of most ardent die hards in CT Dem poliics is now gone (and not a minute too soon)!"
• "Amidst the rising tide of reports, leaks and speculation that President-elect Barack Obama will offer the key Cabinet position of Secretary of State to Senator Hillary Clinton, pundits have detected remanent rivalry between their two houses."
• "Robert Bruce had great veneration for Fillan, and on the eve of the battle of Bannockburn in 1314, having procured a relic of the saint to have with his army, he ".... past the remanent of the nicht in his prayaris with gud esperance of victorie.""