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单词 deferrer
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deferrern.

/dɪˈfəːrə/
Etymology: < defer v.1 + -er suffix1.
One who defers; a delayer, postponer.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > one who delays
tarrier1382
delayer1509
postponer1533
prolonger1548
proroguer1551
deferrer1552
waiter upon God1592
procrastinator1607
temporizer1609
protracter1611
protractor1611
retarder1644
cunctator1654
adjourner1738
postponator1775
putter-off1803
tomorrower1810
offput1856
shelver1881
staller1937
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Deferrer, cunctator.
1559 Willock Let. to Crossraguel in Keith Hist. Ch. Scotl. App. 198 Quhilk of both is the Differrer of the Caus?
a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 245 in Wks. (1640) III A great differrer, long in hope, grown numbe With sloth, yet greedy still of what's to come.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. vi. 96 One of those delicious girls in the New Comedy..called The Postponer, The Deferrer, or, as we might say, The To-Morrower.
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