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1714, Jonathan Swift, The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, London: John Morphew, in Bertrand A. Goldgar and Ian Gadd (eds.), English Political Writings 1711-1714, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 256, It is a very unfair Thing in any Writer to employ his Ignorance and Malice together, because it gives his Answerer double Work […]
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1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of the Answerer” in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 141, Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
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He prayed that Leo didn't think he was a fool. The other men in Leo’s life, anonymous partners, answerers of ads, old boyfriends, old Pete, massed impatiently behind him […]
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Closest matches include buzzers, mujib, respondent, respondents, responder.
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