Preferrer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who prefers (a stated person or thing).; A person who likes one thing more than another; a person who favours something.
"a preferrer of red wine"
- 2 A person who prefers (a stated person or thing).; A person who advances or promotes someone or something. obsolete
"I cannot nor ought nor, except I would bee noted not onely ingrate to your royall person beyng my patrone & preferrer, but also a neglecter of my dutye, a secrete mummer of suche thynges whiche touche both the inheritance of your croune & the honor of your realme ether holde my peace or kepe silence."
- 3 A person who prefers (a stated person or thing).; A person who presents or submits something to an authority.
"It [an Enditement] differeth from an Accusation in this, that the preferrer of the Bill is no way tyed to the proofe thereof vpon any penalty, if it be not proued, except there appeare conspiracy."
Example
More examples"1833, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry dated 13 January, 1833, in Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (eds.), Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, London: Constable, 1910, pp. 14-15, […] it takes a divine man to exhibit anything divine, Socrates, Alfred, Columbus, Wordsworth, or any other brave preferrer of the still voice within to the roar of the populace—a thing very easy to speak and very hard to do for twenty-four hours."
Etymology
From prefer + -er.
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