单词 | reverencer |
释义 | reverencern. A person who treats someone or something with great reverence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > one who reverences homagera1425 reverencer1577 adorant1623 venerator1656 reverer1660 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ix. sig. Nn.v/1 These fellowes are..not the reuerencers of the Euangelical doctrin. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vii. 676 The Inhabitants of this Citie are so great Reverencers of..the Arsacian bloud. 1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica ii. ii. xiv. 252 As becometh a Devout Reverencer, and..an Upright Advocate. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons ii. 23 The Athenians..were become great Reverencers of Crown'd Heads. 1796 S. H. Burney Clarentine III. xxvi. 221 The faithful reverencer of her virtues. 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 121 He is not a questioner and a despiser, but a teacher and a reverencer. 1847 T. De Quincey Protestantism in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 764/2 It is a situation of public scandal even to the deep reverencers of the Bible. 1913 B. Whitlock Forty Years of It xl. 235 That made no difference to the professional reverencers and enforcers of law. 1994 H. Butterworth tr. H. Peters Mary Ward xiii. 198 They had also talked of the foundation of certain Englishwomen. Contemptuously, Carleton refers to these as ‘Votaries’, hangers-on, reverencers of the Jesuits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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