| 释义 |
wreaker Now arch. and rare.|ˈriːkə(r)|
Also 4–5 wreker(e, 5 -ar, 6 Sc. wrekar.
[f. wreak v. + -er1. Cf. OHG. rechâri (MHG. -ære, -er, G. rächer), MLG. wreker, wrecher, (M)Du. wreker, and wrecher.]
One who takes vengeance; an avenger.
a1300E.E. Psalter viii. 3 Þat þou for-do Þe faa, þe wreker him vnto. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iv. (1868) 128 Ne seek no foreyn wrekere [ed. 1560 wreckerie] out of þi self, for þou þi self hast þrest þe in to wicked þinges. c1381― Parl. Foules 361 The stork the wrekere of a-vouterye. a1400Prymer (1891) 18 That thow destroye the enemy and the wrekere. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 201 b/2 This holy man was a grete wreker and auenger on hymself. 1513Douglas æneid vi. ix. 81 Tysyphone, the wrekar of misdedis. 1557T. Phaer æneid. vi. (1558) S j, Brutus, mischief wreaker. [1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 68 The storke..ys a greater wreaker of the adulterye of his owne kynde.] 1887Morris Odyssey xi. 280 For him she left indeed All woes that a mother's wreakers to dreadful end may speed. |