单词 | deferrer |
释义 | deferrern. One who defers; a delayer, postponer. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1552 |
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