单词 | unmaker |
释义 | unmakern. A person who unmakes a person or thing (in various senses of the verb); esp. a destroyer. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys baneOE losera1340 leeserc1380 stroyerc1380 destroyer1382 ravenerc1390 castera1400 confounder1401 wastera1425 stroyc1440 undoerc1440 unmakerc1450 confounderess1509 hydraa1513 stroy-good1540 abolisher1548 thunderbolt1559 disannullera1572 stroy-all1573 ruiner1581 down-puller1583 murdererc1585 spendingc1595 blaster1598 assassin1609 ruinater1609 dissolver1611 minerc1614 destructioner1621 fordoer1631 sinker1632 destructive1640 deletery1642 assassinatea1658 ruinator1658 destroyeress1662 destructora1691 dissolvent1835 solvent1841 wrecker1882 destructant1889 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 144 This hand is an vnmakere of howses. 1684 R. Baxter Whether Parish Congregations 40 The Magistrate may command men how to do their office-work, and yet neither be the maker nor unmaker of the office. 1741 Europe's Catech. 4 I believe in the Power of Louis, Monarch most mighty, Maker and Unmaker of Kings; and in the Craftiness of the old Cardinal. 1791 L. Littlepage Let. 26 Dec. in T. Jefferson Papers (1986) XXII. 456 Nobody really gave into it, except the Swedish Maker, and unmaker, of Revolutions. 1811 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Sept. (1973) II. 106 Lucinda to be commander..of all the makers and unmakers of beds in the household. 1862 C. Crosland Mrs. Blake II. 47 That the soldier is rather an ‘unmaker’ and instrument of destruction than anything else. 1893 W. Watson Lachrymæ Musarum 26 Unmaker of all, and renewer, The Lord of Death. 1944 J. Laird Device Govt. vi. 100 The electorate is the government maker or unmaker, not itself the government. 2013 Times (Nexis) 28 Sept. Was that a pig squealing under the slaughtering knife, or another monk meeting his unmaker? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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