prosperern.
/ˈprɒsp(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈprɑsp(ə)rər/ Now rare.
A bringer of prosperity; one who causes a person or thing to prosper. Occasionally also: a person who prospers or flourishes.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > flourishing condition > one who or that which
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a1622 E. Jocelin Mothers Legacie (1624) Ep. Ded. sig. B3v I was well assured God is the prosperer of good purposes.
1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell i. 161 A man that is no prosperer in grace.
1682 J. Norris tr. R. Waring Effigies Amoris in Eng. 97 The Judge of our actions..the prosperer of all our Heroick undertakings.
1724 W. Harris Pract. Disc. Princ. Representations Messiah iv. 106 He is the Prosperer as well as the Saviour.
a1849 E. Elliott Poet. Wks. (1876) 16 Prosperer! thou look'st on me And feel'st no pity. But thyself shalt fade, Extinguish'd, as a taper.
1851 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 2 268 God is the Prosperer, and the Helper.
1938 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 79 708 Almost any Vedic god could be called ‘the prosperer’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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