单词 | sufferer |
释义 | sufferern. 1. a. One who suffers pain, tribulation, injury, wrong, loss, etc.; one who suffers from disease or ill health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] sickc888 lazar1340 sickmanc1340 laborant?a1425 suffererc1450 malade1483 patient1484 lazar-man1552 languisher1599 ruina1616 plaintiff1633 valetudinarist1651 valetudinaire?c1682 valetudinarian1703 invalid1709 infirm1711 invaletudinarian1762 valetudinary1785 complainant1861 aegrotant1865 degenerate1895 the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] > sufferer patientc1400 feeler1435 suffererc1450 sustainer1533 endurera1599 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > person suffering suffererc1450 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. li. 123 I knowe hov all þinge is doon, I knowe þe wronge doer & suffrer. 1579 R. Rice Inuect. Vices D ij b The sufferers of persecution for his names sake. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1525 The sufferers then will scarce molest us here. View more context for this quotation 1684 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 94 Basill Wood, sometimes a captaine in the king's army and a great sufferer for the king's cause. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 343 Sad suff'rer under nameless ill. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed iv, in Tales Crusaders I. 75 A severe discharge of missiles with the Welch, by which both parties were considerable sufferers. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 98 He had made up his mind that Dr. Hutchinson must come to see these humble sufferers, and to investigate the cause of evil. b. One who suffers death; one who is killed (now only in reference to martyrdom). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > person killed > [noun] sufferer1722 society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes martyrOE witness1382 sufferer1722 1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. iv. §5. 147 I know well, by subdolous Proposals, and captious Questions, great Endeavours were used to shake the Sufferers. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. x. 158 On one side of this patch of open ground was found the sufferer's naked hanger. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 9 When thrown off from the ladder, the sufferer will find himself suspended, not by his neck,..but by a steel circle. 1836 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) IV. 103 The ‘poor sufferers’, as we say at York in assize time. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 176 A few years later a more illustrious sufferer, Lord Russell, had been accompanied by Burnet from the Tower to the scaffold in Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. A patient. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] patientc1387 cure1580 subject1743 sufferer1809 cataract patient1834 admission1842 case1864 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 180 To such as have been in the habit of watching the various changes in this disease at the bedside of the unfortunate sufferer. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 118 A generous rivalry..as to which should be most attentive to the dear sufferer in the state bed-room. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > subjecting to an action or process > undergoing or reception of action > one who or that which object?a1425 worka1425 passivea1500 patienta1550 sufferer1587 undergoer1601 operatee1829 experiencer1862 experient1899 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 168 Whereof then..so great ods betwixt them, sith we holde opinion that God is Good and the very worker or Doer, and contrarywise that Matter is Euill, and but onely a Sufferer? ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > one who permits sufferera1533 permitter1641 sanctioner1846 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xi. f. 19v No bablers, but small spekers: no quarellers, but suffrers. 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 188 Thair sall Goddis wraith reigne, not onlie upone the blind and obstinat idolater, but also upone the negligent sufferaris. 1628 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Paules-Crosse ii. 103 As for the very formality it selfe of the sinne, God is (to make the most of it,) but a sufferer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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