单词 | disapprover |
释义 | disapprovern. A person who disapproves of someone or something, esp. a person who has or expresses an unfavourable opinion. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > one who disapproves dislikera1600 disprovera1639 disapprover1649 head-shaker1813 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. ix. 437 In works thou dost deny him, being disobedient, and to every Good Work a Disapprover and a Reprobate, Tit. 1.16. 1705 J. Beaumont Hist. Treat. Spirits ii. 24 A disapprover of Evils, and an approver of Good. 1794 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 107 Every disapprover of their politics and religious tenets. 1820 J. Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance 178 The disapprovers of the designs for educating the people. 1867 Ladies' Repository Feb. 66/1 Not all the plaudits of general praise can poise the scale against an individual disapprover. 1918 B. Von Hutten Bag of Saffron v. 63 The minute Robert Blundell arrived at being called ‘the poor fellow’ by a disapprover, the disapprover's doom..was sealed. 1995 Church Times 27 Jan. 17/4 One is hardly likely to find many of society's disapprovers among a sex shop's clientele. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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