disappointern.
/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntə/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪn(t)ər/ A person who or thing which fails to fulfil an expectation or brings about the disappointment of an aim, hope, objective, etc. Cf. disappoint v. II.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > that which disappoints > person
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1649 R. Baillie Rev. Seditious Pamphlet 35 No marvail that Dr. Bramble..should be angry at the discoverers and disappointers of that most pious work, as they wont to style it.
1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 192 This great and just disappointer may go to Church next Sunday; and give due respect and attendance to his Instructor.
1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 172 Thou Disappointer of the craving Mind.
1721 A. Welwood Meditations 231 Death is a great Disappointer.
1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 14 Dec. 786/2 He is not the disappointer of hopes.
1820 Examiner No. 616. 66/1 Royal disappointers and promise-breakers.
1882 Country Gentleman 28 Jan. 83/2 The great disappointer—compromise—may rob morbid tastes of the tempting fruit.
1919 Vogue 15 Oct. 154/2 His father looked forward to his becoming a barrister, but Merrick himself—for genius is a perpetual disappointer of parents—cherished the ambition to write and act.
2008 L. Enger So Brave, Young & Handsome ix. 76 I was used to resembling what I was—a well-meaning failure, a pallid disappointer of persons, a man fading.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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