单词 | adorer |
释义 | adorern. 1. A worshipper, a votary. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > [noun] > worshipper heryera950 loutera1340 worshipperc1384 honourera1425 praiserc1452 fearer1535 adorer1572 sectary1590 churchgoer1598 thanksgivera1622 votary1639 theophile1647 God-fearer1668 theophilist1677 sacricolist1727 kirk-goer1754 bhakta1828 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Adorer, or a worshipper. 1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxvii. 318 Iupiter..Of whom euen his Adorers write euill Taches many an one. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 143 And thinner left the throng Of his adorers . View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 315 While Heaven's Adorers..Their unrewarded Innocence maintain. 1772 W. Hooper tr. L. S. Mercier Mem. Year Two Thousand Five Hundred I. xxi. 158 It is an affecting sight to see on our observatory the numerous adorers of God falling on their knees, the eye applied to the telescope. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlii. 12 Which had..driven his adorers from his shrine with blows and menaces. 1896 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. July 500 He vowed that if he conquered the adorers of Odin he would become a Christian. 1969 Furrow 20 13 The sacrifice of Christ on the cross... became the gateway for the entry of a multitude of those adorers in spirit and in truth. 2000 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 22 June 7 I prayed that..you get to know yourselves as true adorers of Allah. 2. An ardent admirer, a lover. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > admiration > [noun] > admirer admirator1566 admirer1571 adorer1597 1597 G. Markham in tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Beeing..as great an adorer of your vertues, as the mightiest whosoeuer. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iv. 67 I professe my selfe her Adorer, not her Friend. View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 70 in Scepsis Scientifica And who that adorer of Des-Cartes that professeth Scepticism? a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Wealth in Wks. (1707) I. i. 124 They were fain of Accusers to become the Adorers of Scipio. 1768 Monthly Rev. June 457 The power that every polite woman has amongst us, of commanding as many adorers as she lists. 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. xx. 289 I should be glad to see some of these intellectual adorers in love with the mind of an old or ugly woman. 1853 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xiv. 256 As to the adorers of Alfred Tennyson, they unluckily haunt one at all seasons. 1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iii. vi. 384 The fatuous adorer of that dilapidated, horrible woman. 1949 C. V. Wedgwood Richelieu & French Monarchy iv. 58 She dragged in her wake at least one besotted adorer, an empty-headed young spark called Chalais. 2009 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Travel section) 18 Although I'm a wordsmith and adorer of poetry I have no words for Myrtleford. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1572 |
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