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▪ I. reclaimer1|rɪˈkleɪmə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who reclaims.
1676Rep. French Capers 4 Aug. in Marvell Growth Popery (1678) 58 That all Privateers and Reclaimers know it. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 103 A Suit being commenced between the Captors of Prizes on one part, and the Reclaimers of the same on the other. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 143 The whole Country round you..owe great Obligations to your fair Reclaimer. 1861Smiles Engineers I. 22 The first reclaimers of the Fen lands seem to have been the religious recluses. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 100 §52 After a reclaiming note has been present, the reclaimer shall not be at liberty to withdraw it.
▪ II. † reˈclaimer2 Obs. rare.
[App. ad. AF. reclaimer: see -er4.]
Reclamation, reform.
1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 230 We ought even in our Angers to give some manifest of a desire of good to the Person we are angry withall, as of Reclaimer, of his amendment and altering his Course. 1667Waterhous Fire London 40 Obstinacy and opposition to, and despight of the meanes and motions of reclaimer. |