stereotypern.
One who stereotypes.
1. One who makes stereotype plates.
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society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founder > [noun] > maker of plates
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1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Entick).
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 56/2 Fresh burnt plaster..is always adopted by the cunning stereotypers, for they state that if it simply stands a fortnight, the casts will not be so good.
1882 Daily News 29 Nov. 6/5 Wanted,..experienced Stereotyper for Daily and Weekly Newspaper.
2. figurative. One who fixes unchangingly.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > perpetuating > one who perpetuates
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1890 C. Martyn Wendell Phillips 519 A propounder of truth—not a stereotyper of it into statutes.
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ˈstereoˌtypery n. (a) the business of making stereotypes; (b) a place where stereotypes are made, a stereotype-foundry. (In recent dictionaries.)
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