单词 | disarmer |
释义 | disarmern. 1. A person who or thing which disarms (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [noun] > depriving of weapons > one who deprives of weapons disarmer1630 1630 Pathomachia iv. i. 33 You are Securitie the Root of Confidence, the Disarmer of the Common-wealth, the secret Impoysoner of the Church. 1655 H. Hammond (title) The disarmers dexterities examined. 1737 G. Logan Answer Lawfulness & Necessity 37 The Immoralities..which this Act intends to suppress, are manifest, viz. Despisers of Dominions.., Disarmers of the City-guard, appointed for the Protection of the Inhabitants. 1798 J. Underwood Draw Not Your Sword (new ed.) vi. 21 The lord have mercy on the battering, twisting disarmer, falling foul upon the cunning, wary slipper. 1820 Examiner No. 612. 2/1 The disarmers..of the country which enabled them to disarm it. 1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times II. 16 The disarmer may (strictly) break his adversary's sword. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer II. 132 The Conqueror and Disarmer but not yet Abolisher of Death. 1967 Jrnl. Gen. Educ. 19 60 It was de rigueur to look with great disfavor on Puritanism as an inhibiter [sic] of all good impulses, destroyer of beauty,..disarmer of all the arts. 2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 4 July 8 Now, it seems, the British are also to be..disarmers of the local militias. 2. A supporter or advocate of disarmament; spec. a supporter or advocate of the limitation or renunciation by a country or organization of the use or possession of weapons, esp. (in later use) nuclear weapons. Cf. disarmament n. 1.nuclear disarmer, unilateral disarmer: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > disarmament > [noun] > advocate of disarmer1898 unilateralist1927 multilateralist1947 unilateral disarmer1960 1898 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 25 Dec. ii. 2/2 In an age mad for war and screaming for fight, the optimist still has hope, since the chief glory of our splendid day is the ‘Truce of God’ proposed by Nicholas the disarmer. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 July 7/1 England is so richly provided with naval equipment that she can easily afford to masquerade as a ‘disarmer’. 1965 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 2 Feb. Our main purpose, according to U. S. chief disarmer, William Z. Foster, is the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. 1984 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Oct. On defence, I'm a disarmer at heart. Should we be locking money up in Trident? 2010 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 4/1 When Labour were talking to the disarmers, they said they would build three submarines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1630 |
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