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Well-wisher
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- 1 Someone who extends good wishes, or expresses sympathy, to someone else.
"[T]hose honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and raillery of their well-wishers and companions; that are pelted by men, women, and children, friends and foes, and in a word, stand as butts in conversation, for every one to shoot at that pleases."
- 2 Someone who makes a wish at a wishing well. nonce-word, rare
"They strolled on and passed a smiling man standing by the Village wishing well. "Well," said the well-wisher. Ah … must be the Village idiot."
- 3 someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful wordnet
- 4 Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something. obsolete, rare
"I never saw your chancellor, nor his chaplain. The latter has a good deal of learning, and is a well wisher to be an author: your chancellor is an excellent man."
Etymology
From well (“in a desirable manner; so as one could wish”, adverb) + wisher.
From well (“hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, etc.”) + wisher.
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