单词 | needer |
释义 | needern. rare after 17th cent. A person who needs something. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > one who needs or wants wanter1549 needer1556 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 99v What is more praiseworthy..than eloquence? either for ye admiration of the hearers, or the hope of the needers. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxx. sig. R6 Louing them that they haue neede of, but neuer louing the needers of them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. i. 45 Aduantage, which doth euer coole Ith'absence of the needer . View more context for this quotation a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) lvi. 188 Hee sent into the towne to such persons as were the greatest needers. a1763 J. Byrom in Poems (1895) II. 528 As if it wanted, for a foil, to doom Its equal needers to eternal gloom! a1860 H. H. Wilson Ess. & Lect. (1862) I. 349 Glorification of the cherisher of all things, and the needer of none. 1959 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs i. 4 No loiterers or needers. 1976 Ann. Rev. Sociol. 2 412 The persons caring for the totally helpless infant must define him or her as a dependent needer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1556 |
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