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preferrer|prɪˈfɜːrə(r)|
Also 6 -erer, 6–7 -errour.
[f. prefer + -er1.]
One who prefers.
†1. One who promotes or advances to office, etc.; a promoter, advancer, patron. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 35 b, Your royall person beyng my patrone & preferrer. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 120 The preferrers unto livings are no less faulty: they choose of the worst. 1577F. de Lisle's Legendarie B iv b, The Constable was the only preferer of the said Lords of Guises sister..who by his meanes was preferred before many other both more marriageable and meete for such a man then her selfe. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 149 Whosoever sits in the seat, will respect more his owne safetie than the service of his preferrour. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 181 He was..a preferrer of many, and Father to his servants.
2. One who brings a matter forward; one who submits or promotes a measure.
1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 318 Ye have ben, under the Kinges Highnes, a singuler patrone and preferrer of the causes of the same [‘this poure lande’]. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 2033/2 Doct. Stephens Secretary, and Doct. Foxe Almosiner (who were the chief furtherers, preferrers and defendours on the kings behalfe of the sayd cause). 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 625 Lycurgus and Hyperides were common speakers and preferrers of matters in Councils and Senate. 1607Cowell Interpr. s.v. Enditement, The preferrer of the Bill in no way tyed to the proofe thereof vpon any penalty. |