单词 | rescuer |
释义 | rescuern. A person who makes a rescue, esp. one who is engaged or employed in rescue work. Also occasionally of a thing (see self-rescuer n.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > one who rescues or delivers leesera1300 delivererc1350 savioura1382 ransomera1400 salvatora1400 savera1400 ridder1533 rescuer1535 redeemer1552 saviouress1563 vindicator1566 sospitator1650 redemptor1858 salvationist1971 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 114 This is the man we traist this tyme salbe The haill reskewar of oure libertie. 1553 Act 1 Mary Sess. 2. c. 3 §7 The said Rescuers and Disturbers shall suffer like Imprisonment. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 817 The rescuer and the revenger of David. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 5 Aug. (1972) VI. 184 Collonell Danvers..was rescued from the Captain of the Guard and carried away—one only of the Rescuers being taken. 1727 L. Eusden Three Poems 12 Her Artisans shall bid their Rescuer bloom, And all thy glories weave in an immortal loom! 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xii. 162 Had a son..put him to death in order to rescue him from the severer hands of justice, the motive,..should, even in case of punishment, have made such rescuer an object of pity. 1832 J. Richardson Wacousta 366 She could not see the generous preserver of her life, and the rescuer of the body of her ill-fated cousin, depart without emotion. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvii. 200 Nearly all our party, as well the rescuers as the rescued, were tossing in their sick bunks. 1884 Manch. Examiner 16 July 5/2 The rescuer was a volunteer. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xxix. 280 Your brother..waits with that traitor de Tournay..for the arrival of the mysterious rescuer. 1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. xi. 143 Rescuers have to be fitted with oxygen apparatus when they venture into a mine after an explosion. 1995 Independent 13 Nov. 12/8 Rescuers yesterday helped 115 foreign trekkers from a valley near Mount Everest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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