non-hearern.
/nɒnˈhɪərə/, U.S. /nɑnˈhɪrər/ rare.
1. Church History. A person who does not attend religious services (cf. hearer n. 2); spec. any one of a number of 18th-cent. Cameronians who refused to attend the services available to them because they regarded the presiding ministers as insufficiently godly, or from similar scruples.
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Cameronian1690
mountain man1690
mountaineer1719
non-hearer1807
1807 in R. Lawrie (title) A remembrancer, shewing that the state of the testimony of the suffering remnant, in the time of the persecution, and since the revolution, to be the same, as maintained by the suffering remnant, or true non-hearers, who have owned and defended the martyrs testimony.
1853 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. 1689–1748 II. xiv. 69 A portion of them [sc. the Cameronians]..isolated themselves as ‘non-hearers’.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 707 The number of these zealots [sc. Presbyterian nonjurors] went on diminishing till..they were nowhere numerous enough to have a meeting house, and were known by the name of the Non-hearers.
2. gen. A person who is not a hearer or who does not hear.
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1955 Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi III. 771 [4 Feb. 1939] After describing the Self as srotā (hearer), mantā (thinker), vijntātā (knower), etc., it is again described as asrotā, amantā, avijnatā, non-hearer, non-thinker, non-knower. Is it not so?
1973 M. Lichtheim tr. Instr. Ptahhotep in Anc. Egyptian Lit. I. 74 The heart makes of its owner a hearer or non-hearer.
2002 Tribune (Chandigarh) (Electronic ed.) Jan. 28 If any one does not eat for ten days..he becomes a non-seer, a non-hearer, a non-thinker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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