单词 | freer |
释义 | freern. A person who or (occasionally) thing which sets someone or something free; a liberator. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > one who frees releaser?a1475 freer1604 liberator1615 enfranchiser1632 Messiah1667 1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings ii. 666 He must not onelie be free himselfe, and the freer of all his from death and hell. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiv. xi. 512 Hee is the freer, that is the Sauiour. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 123 It was erected to him..as to the Freer of the Citie. 1789 J. Byng Diary 29 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 108 Hear this, ye freers of black slaves. 1853 L. Hunt Relig. of Heart 84 The identifier of one's neighbour with one's-self; the freer of spirit from letter. 1873 W. Morris Love is Enough 55 A worker of great deeds after my father, Freer of my land from murder and wrong. 1962 R. M. Ohmann Shaw i. 24 Given its head, history is an enslaver rather than a freer of men. 2005 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 20 Nov. e4 Lincoln's familiar story is all there: his humble beginnings, the rail-splitter, freer of slaves, author of the hastily scrawled Gettysburg Address. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1604 |
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