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deformer|dɪˈfɔːmə(r)|
[f. deform v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which deforms; in controversial use, the opposite of reformer.
1562Winȝet Cert. Tractates iii. Wks. 1888 I. 26 The principall deformare of his allegeit reformatioun. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse F, A mightie deformer of men's manners and features is this vnnecessarie vice [drunkenness]. 1639T. Goodwin On Revelation Wks. II. ii. 129 (R.) To reduce our worship, etc. now into the pattern of the first four or five hundred years (which is the plausible pretence of our new deformers) is to bring Popery again in. 1689T. Plunket Char. Gd. Commander 54 Deformers, not Reformers, still excite Informers, Non-conformers, to indite. 1882Atlantic Monthly XLIX. 336 These literary deformers. |