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bringer|ˈbrɪŋə(r)|
[f. bring v. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which brings (see various senses of the verb).
c1340Cursor M. 10161 (Trin.) Joachim bringere of bote. 1471Earl of Oxford in Paston Lett. 669 III. 5 The brynger of thys letter. 1535Tindale Tracy's Test. 6 A peacemaker, and bringer into grace and favour. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 100 Yet the first bringer of vnwelcome newes Hath but a loosing Office. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 443 A pretended great bringer of rain. 1841Emerson Misc. (1855). 158 The scholar must be a bringer of hope. 1881H. H. Gibbs Double Standard 67 Their sterling amount would be at the credit of the bringer.
b. spec. See quot.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 9 Aug., A bounty-broker is simply a crimp, or what the recruiting sergeants in Charles-street, Westminster, call a ‘bringer’.
2. With back, in, out, up, etc. bringer up, one who rears or educates.
c1386Chaucer Wife's T. 340 Povert is..A ful gret brynger out of busynesse. 1529Wolsey in Four C. Eng. Lett. 11 Your olde brynger up and lovying frende. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 71 They were first bringers in of all ciuilitie. 1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 130 The bringers-up or last rancke called Tergiductores. 1742C. Wesley in Southey Life Wesley (1820) II. 26 Bringers-in of the Pretender. 1840Carlyle Heroes iv. 210 A bringer back of men to reality. 1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. ii. ii. (1868) 156 He is the Captain, or bringer on, of salvation. |