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adorer|əˈdɔərə(r)|
[f. adore + -er1.]
1. One who adores; a worshipper; a votary.
1602Warner Albion's Eng. xiii. lxxvii. (1612) 318 Iupiter..of whom euen his Adorers write euill Taches many an one. 1615Beaum. & Flet. Cupid's Rev. i. i. (T.) Adorers of that drowsy deity. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 143 And thinner left the throng Of his adorers. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. V. xlii. 12 Which had..driven his adorers from his shrine with blows and menaces.
2. fig. An ardent admirer, a lover.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. iv. 74, I professe my selfe her Adorer, not her Friend. 1665Glanville Scep. Sci. 70 And who that adorer of Des-Cartes that professeth Scepticism? a1704T. Brown Wealth Wks. 1730 I. 86 They were fain of accusers, to become the adorers of Scipio. 1853Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. xiv. 256 As to the adorers of Alfred Tennyson, they unluckily haunt one at all seasons. |