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单词 sufferer
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sufferern.

Brit. /ˈsʌf(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈsəf(ə)rər/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s suffrer, 1500s Scottish sufferar.
Etymology: < suffer v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who suffers pain, tribulation, injury, wrong, loss, etc.; one who suffers from disease or ill health.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun]
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laborant?a1425
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lazar-man1552
languisher1599
ruina1616
plaintiff1633
valetudinarist1651
valetudinaire?c1682
valetudinarian1703
invalid1709
infirm1711
invaletudinarian1762
valetudinary1785
complainant1861
aegrotant1865
degenerate1895
the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] > sufferer
patientc1400
feeler1435
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sustainer1533
endurera1599
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > person suffering
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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).
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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.
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the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun]
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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.
2. That which undergoes some operation; a passive thing. Obsolete. rare.
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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?
3. One who permits something to be done. Obsolete.
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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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