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sympathizer|ˈsɪmpəθaɪzə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who or that which sympathizes; esp. one disposed to agree with or approve a party, cause, etc.; a backer-up.
1815Jane Austen Emma iii. vi, His patient listener and sympathizer. 1838Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 336 A new name is invented for the sufferers [sc. U.S. citizens taken in the Canadian insurrection]—Sympathisers. 1865J. S. Mill in Evening Star 10 July, Lovers of England,..sympathisers with the English people. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. v. 46 There never was a more enthusiastic sympathizer with his Clergy. 1901Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 2), Sympathizer..an eye which becomes inflamed through sympathy with disease of its fellow. 1918Times, Lit. Supp. 14 Mar. 123/1 Our Balkan allies and sympathizers. |