单词 | deformer |
释义 | deformern. One who or that which deforms; in controversial use, the opposite of reformer. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person appairer1382 malisona1525 deformer1562 annoyer1577 scathe1579 harmer1583 mischief1586 allayer1615 crippler1648 devilifier1793 vitiator1846 deterioratora1856 flivver1915 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 26 The principall deformare of his allegeit reformatioun. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G3 A mightie deformer of mens manners and features, is this vnnecessarie vice [sc. drunkenness]. a1680 T. Goodwin Expos. Revelation ii. iv, in Wks. (1683) II. 129 To reduce our Worship, etc. now unto the Pattern of the first four or five hundred Years, (which is the plausible pretence of our New Deformers) is to bring Popery again in. 1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 54 Deformers, not Reformers, still excite Informers, Non-conformers, to indite. 1882 Atlantic Monthly XLIX. 336 These literary deformers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1562 |
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