单词 | perverter |
释义 | pervertern. A person who perverts; a person who exhibits or practises perversion. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > one who leads astray > [noun] perverser1482 perverter?a1500 seducer1542 inverter1584 debaucher1631 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts adulterer?c1430 writher1498 perverter?a1500 wrester1533 corruptera1538 wringerc1560 racker1565 wreather1566 hackera1603 wracker1719 torturer1830 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > action of perverting > one who perverser1482 perverter?a1500 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > misapplication > perversion > one who prevaricator1610 perverter1781 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2715 in Poems (1981) 100 Fals peruerteris of the lawis..Lettand that all wer gospell that he schawis. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vii. i. 131 The deuil, peruerter of all good thinges. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Isa. ix. 14 Our Lord shal destroy from Israel the head & the tayle, the peruerter and restrayner in one day. 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος i. 6 He is a soul perverter. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 27 The Jews..charge Paul as a perverter of the prophet's meaning, in a false rendition of the sense of the place. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 241 Perverters of epistolary integrity. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 302 This story is retold by Buchanan, and by the other perverters of the Scottish history. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xviii. 175 The crown which he had wrested..from the Popish perverter. 1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xxii. 211 When she wasn't being a deus ex machina; a perverter of justice. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. d8/1 The advertisers look at us like we're some kind of perverters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1500 |
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