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单词 lachrymist
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lachrymistn.

Brit. /ˈlakrᵻmɪst/, U.S. /ˈlækrəməst/
Forms: 1600s lacrymist, 1600s 1800s– lachrymist.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin lacrima , -ist suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin lacrima tear (see lachryma n.) + -ist suffix; in quot. 1620 punning on alchemist n. and chemist n. (compare forms at those entries).
A person who weeps, esp. easily or frequently. Often humorous.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper
weeperc1380
beweepera1425
weeping1482
well1609
lachrymist1620
greeter17..
blubberer1786
blubber1832
crier1892
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 18 These Gold-engendring Chymists, are Archymists, rather Lechymists, and make all those that follow them, Lachrymists.
1683 G. Hickes Jovian 117 This old withered Lachrymist, would have made no Bones of Kicking Julian, no not when he was scarce able to creep.
1832 S. Wilderspin Early Discipline 164 A pause ensued, and the lachrymists were reduced to three.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 229 Yet the man who could move an audience to tears..was any thing but a lachrymist by temperament.
1952 Look 26 Feb. 4/1 The lachrymist in ‘The Shrike’ is Jose Ferrer—actor-director-producer-weeper. Mr. Ferrer is called on by the script to cry approximately six times at each performance.
2010 R. P. Martin tr. A. Kozintsev Mirror Laughter 120 While certain lachrymists do ‘invent’ pain as a pretext for crying, this situation is abnormal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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